Volegalea Iredale 1938

Volegalea is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Melongenidae, the crown conches and their allies.^[1]

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.

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