- Peculator
Taxobox
name = "Peculator"
fossil_range =Lower Miocene to Recent
image_caption =
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Mollusca
classis =Gastropoda
subclassis =Orthogastropoda
ordo =Sorbeoconcha
superfamilia =Volutoidea
familia =Volutomitridae
genus = "Peculator"
genus_authority = Iredale, 1924
subdivision_ranks =Species
subdivision = See text."Peculator" is a
genus of seasnail s, marinegastropod mollusc s in the familyVolutomitridae , the mitres.Distribution
These mitres are endemic to
Australia andNew Zealand .Description
The small shells are ovate, obesely ovate-biconic, or narrowly ovate to subcylindrical, with a narrow aperture and three or four strong, distant columellar plaits.
pecies
* "
Peculator bacatus "
* "Peculator hedleyi " (Murdoch, 1905)
* "Peculator obconicus " (Powell, 1952)
* "Peculator porphyria " (Verco, 1896)
* "Peculator verconis " Iredale, 1924References
* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://us.mirror.gbif.org/species/browse/resource/172/taxon/17607127/ GBIF]
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