Peculator (gastropod)
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| name = Peculator
| fossil_range = Lower Miocene to Recent
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| taxon = Peculator
| authority = Iredale, 1924
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
| type_species= Peculator verconis Iredale, 1924
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Peculator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae, one family of mitres.WoRMS (2013). Peculator Iredale, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=449937 on 2014-03-02
Species
Species within the genus Peculator include:
- Peculator baccatus Cernohorsky, 1980
- Peculator hedleyi (Murdoch, 1905)
- Peculator obconicus (Powell, 1952)
- Peculator porphyria (Verco, 1896)
- Peculator verconis Iredale, 1924
References
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- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}
- Y. Kantor, 2010, Checklist of Recent Volutomitridae
- [http://us.mirror.gbif.org/species/browse/resource/172/taxon/17607127/ GBIF]
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Category:Extant Miocene first appearances
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