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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Volutoidea: Volutomitridae

Volutomitra groenlandica (Möller, 1842)


Range: 76.13°N to 44.43°N; 93°W to 0°W
Depth: 27 to 599 m (live 40 to 300 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 27  mm

Details


Mitra groenlandica Möller, 1842a, p. 88
[Basis of the current name]
Attributed to: Beck
Type Locality: [West] Greenland
Range: 76.13°N to 44.43°N; 93°W to 0°W
Depth: 27 to 599 m (live 40 to 300 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 27 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada: Nunavut, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nova Scotia; Eastern Atlantic: Iceland
References: Thorson (1944) LlN; Bouchet & Warén (1985) D{N}SWM


Partial List of References

Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4 76-97.

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