''Volegalea'' is a
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of large
sea snail
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s,
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the
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Melongenidae
The Melongenidae, the crown conchs and their relatives, are a taxonomic family of large to very large marine gastropods in the superfamily Buccinoidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melongenidae Gill, 1871 (1854). Accessed through: Worl ...
, the crown conches and their allies.
[Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Volegalea Iredale, 1938. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567502 on 2015-12-03]
Species
Species within the genus ''Volegalea'' include:
* ''
Volegalea carnaria''
(Röding, 1798)
* ''
Volegalea cochlidium''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''
Volegalea dirki''
(Nolf, 2007)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Volegalea wardiana''
Iredale, 1938: synonym of ''Volegalea cochlidium''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
References
* Landau B. & Vermeij G.J. (2013) ''A new species of Pugilina (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda, Melongeninae) from the Lower Miocene Cantaure Formation of Venezuela''. Basteria 77(4-6): 89-95.
Melongenidae
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