| Microvoluta Temporal range: Lower Pliocene to Recent  | |
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| Microvoluta cythara shell | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Mollusca | 
| Class: | Gastropoda | 
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda | 
| Order: | Neogastropoda | 
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea | 
| Family: | Volutomitridae | 
| Genus: | Microvoluta Angas, 1877  | 
| Type species | |
| Microvoluta australis Angas, 1877 | |
| Synonyms | |
| 
 Vexillitra Marwick, 1931  | |
Microvoluta is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae.[1]
Species
Species in the genus Microvoluta include:[2]
- Microvoluta amphissa Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
 - Microvoluta australis Angas, 1877
 - † Microvoluta balteata (Marwick, 1931)
 - Microvoluta blakeana (Dall, 1889)
 - Microvoluta corona Simone & Cunha, 2012
 - Microvoluta cryptomitra Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
 - Microvoluta cythara Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
 - Microvoluta dolichura Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
 - Microvoluta echinata Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
 - Microvoluta engonia Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
 - † Microvoluta fracta (Marwick, 1926)
 - Microvoluta garrardi Cernohorsky, 1975
 - Microvoluta hondana (Yokoyama, 1922)
 - Microvoluta intermedia (Dall, 1889)
 - Microvoluta joloensis Cernohorsky, 1970
 - Microvoluta marginata (Hutton, 1885)
 - † Microvoluta marwicki (Vella, 1954)
 - Microvoluta miranda (E. A. Smith, 1891)
 - Microvoluta mitrella Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
 - † Microvoluta nodulata P. A. Maxwell, 1988
 - † Microvoluta pentaploca Finlay, 1927
 - Microvoluta respergens Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
 - Microvoluta royana Iredale, 1924
 - Microvoluta stadialis (Hedley, 1911)
 - Microvoluta superstes Bouchet & Warén, 1985
 - Microvoluta teretiuscula (Thiele, 1925)
 - Microvoluta veldhoveni deJong and Coomans, 1988
 - † Microvoluta vetusta Laws, 1936
 - † Microvoluta wainuioruensis (Vella, 1954)
 
- Species brought into synonymy
 
- Microvoluta cuvierensis Finlay, 1930 synonym of Microvoluta marginata (Hutton, 1885)
 - Microvoluta euzonata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1900): synonym of Austromitra euzonata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1900)
 - Microvoluta obconica Powell, 1952 synonym of Peculator obconicus (Powell, 1952)
 - Microvoluta ponderi Cernohorsky, 1975 synonym of Microvoluta miranda (E. A. Smith, 1891)
 - Microvoluta purpureostoma Hedley & May, 1908 synonym of Microvoluta australis Angas, 1877
 
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Microvoluta Angas, 1877. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138661 on 2016-11-15
 - ↑ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Microvoluta Angas, 1877. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138661 on 2015-09-19
 
- Marwick, J. (1931). The Tertiary Mollusca of the Gisborne District. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 13:1-177. 18: pls.
 
Further reading
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- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
 - SeaShells of NSW
 
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