Volutomitra banksi

Taxobox
name = "Volutomitra banksi"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
superfamilia = Volutoidea
familia = Volutomitridae
genus = "Volutomitra"
species = "V. banksi"
binomial = "Volutomitra banksi"
binomial_authority = (Dell, 1951)
synonyms = "Proximitra banksi" Dell, 1951

"Volutomitra banksi" is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, found around the South Island and the Chatham Islands.

Habitat

This volute is found at depths of between 145 and 530 m.

Description

The shell is elongate-, with lightly convex whorls, early ones with broad axial folds crossed by incised spiral lines, the axials then becoming obsolete and the spirals weak, except over the neck of the siphonal canal.

Coloration is white under a thin light olive-brown periostracum.

The maximum shell height is 42.5 mm, and width 16.6 mm.

References

* Powell A W B, "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1