Volva (mollusc)

Taxobox
name = "Volva"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
cohort = Neogastropoda
superfamilia = Cypraeoidea
familia = Ovulidae
genus = "Volva"
genus_authority = Röding, 1798
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Volva" is a genus of sea snails, specifically cowry allies or ovulids, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae.

pecies within the genus "Volva"

* "Volva volva" Linnaeus, 1758 - lined egg spindle
* "Volva longirostrata" (Sowerby, 1828)

References

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