Voluta hamiltonensis | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Volutidae |
Subfamily: | Volutinae |
Genus: | Voluta |
Species: | V. hamiltonensis
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Binomial name | |
Voluta hamiltonensis Pritchard, 1898
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Voluta hamiltonensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. [1]
Specimens of the species have a fusiform shell, axial sculpture, and non-extended outer lip, with flattened whorls on its spire. [2] A smooth, relatively spherical protoconch is seen at the end of the spire. [3]
Fossils of this marine species were found in Tertiary strata in Victoria, Australia.