Alcithoe flemingi is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: | Alcithoe |
Species: | A. flemingi
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Binomial name | |
Alcithoe flemingi Dell, 1978
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Description edit
This species attains a size of 105 mm.
Habitat edit
This volute is endemic to New Zealand and lives in deep water off the Chatham Rise, off Auckland and the Campbell Islands
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