Peculator

Peculator

Taxobox
name = "Peculator"
fossil_range = Lower Miocene to Recent


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
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 sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres.

Distribution

These mitres are endemic to Australia and New 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, 1924

References

* 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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