:Alcithoe pseudolutea

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| image_caption = Shell of Alcithoe pseudolutea (holotype at the Museum of New Zealand)

| taxon = Alcithoe pseudolutea

| authority = Bail & Limpus, 2005

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Alcithoe pseudolutea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.{{WRMS species|385243|Alcithoe pseudolutea Bail & Limpus, 2005||25 April 2010}}

Description

The length of the shell attains 110 mm, its diameter 45 mm.

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Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off North Island.

References

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  • {{cite book |last1=Bail, P. & Limpus, A. |title=A Conchological iconography: the Recent volutes of New Zealand |date=2005 |publisher=Conchbooks |pages=1–73}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Hills S.F.K., Trewick S.A. & Morgan-Richards M. |title=Phylogenetic information of genes, illustrated with mitochondrial data from a genus of gastropod molluscs. |journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society|date=2011 |volume=104 |issue=4 |pages=770–785|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01756.x }}

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pseudolutea

Category:Gastropods described in 2005

Category:Gastropods of New Zealand

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