Afrivoluta pringlei

Afrivoluta pringlei
The shell of a specimen of Afrivoluta pringlei
trawled off Cape Agulhas, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Marginellidae
Subfamily: Marginelloninae
Genus: Afrivoluta
Species: A. pringlei
Binomial name
Afrivoluta pringlei
Tomlin, 1947[1]

Afrivoluta pringlei, commonly known as the pringle's marginella, is a species of large deepwater sea snail with a glossy shell, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Marginellidae, the marginellids.

This species is endemic to South Africa, and it is found south-east of Cape Recife in a depth of 220 m. Specimens have been found off Algoa Bay and Jeffreys Bay.

Tomlin called the genus Afrivoluta, and the genotype pringlei, after the director of the Port Elizabeth Museum and Snake Park.

References

  1. Tomlin, John Read le Brockton (1947). "A new South African volutid". Journal of Conchology (print). London: Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland. 22 (10): 224–246.

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