Alcithoe larochei
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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| image = Alcithoe larochei 001.jpg
| image_caption = Shell of Alcithoe larochei (specimen at the Museum of New Zealand)
| status = NT
| status_system = NZTCS
| status_ref = {{cite report|url=https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets/documents/science-and-technical/nztcs40entire.pdf|last1=Funnell|first1=Greig|last2=Gordon|first2=Dennis|last3=Daniel|first3=Leduc|last4=Makan|first4=Troy|last5=Marshall|first5=Bruce A.|last6=Mills|first6=Sadie|last7=Michel|first7=Pascale|last8=Read|first8=Geoff|last9=Schnabel|first9=Kareen|last10=Tracey|first10=Di|last11=Wing|first11=Stephen|editor-last=Todd|editor-first=Amanda|display-authors=1|title=Conservation status of indigenous marine invertebrates in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021|publisher=New Zealand Department of Conservation|page=38|isbn=978-1-99-118365-1|date=January 2023|access-date=27 September 2024}}
| taxon = Alcithoe larochei
| authority = Marwick, 1926
}}
Alcithoe larochei is a species of large deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.{{WRMS species|385239|Alcithoe larocheiMarwick, 1926|23 July 2024}}
Description
The length of the shell attains 144 mm, its diameter 66 mm.
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Distribution
This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off North Island: Bay of Plenty to Cape Campbell and Cook Strait.
References
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- {{cite journal |last1=Marwick |first1=J. |title=Tertiary and recent Volutidae of New Zealand |journal=Transactions of the New Zealand Institute |date=1926 |volume=56 |pages=259–303}}
- {{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 |issue=4 |pages=770–785|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01756.x }}
External links
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}
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Category:Gastropods of New Zealand
Category:Gastropods described in 1926
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