Alcithoe flemingi

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| image_caption = Shell of Alcithoe flemingi (holotype in the Museum of New Zealand)

| taxon = Alcithoe flemingi

| authority = Dell, 1978

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Alcithoe flemingi is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.{{WRMS species|385233 |Alcithoe flemingiDell, 1978|23 July 2024}}

Description

This species attains a size of 105 mm, its diameter 32 mm.

This volute is endemic to New Zealand and lives in deep water off the Chatham Rise, off Auckland and the Campbell Islands

{{cite journal |last1=Dell |first1=R.K. |title=Additions to the New Zealand Recent molluscan fauna with notes on Pachymelon (Palomelon) |journal=National Museum of New Zealand Records |date=1978 |volume=1 |issue=11 |pages=161–176}}
{{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 book |last1=Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. |title=Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia |date=2009 |publisher=Canterbury University Press |location=Christchurch}}
{{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 |pages=770–785}}

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