Ternivoluta

Ternivoluta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Athletinae of the family Volutidae.

General characteristics

(Original description in German) The shell is smooth and glossy, featuring a blunt shoulder edge and a moderately protruding spire. Its initial whorl is smooth, spherical, and not very large. There are four rather strong and very oblique columellar folds. The radula possesses three well-developed tooth plates in each row.

Species

• † Ternivoluta anticingulata <small>(F. McCoy, 1866)</small>
• † Ternivoluta antiscalaris <small>(F. McCoy, 1866)</small>
• † Ternivoluta antispinosa <small>(Tate, 1899)</small>
• † Ternivoluta bungae <small>(Darragh, 1971)</small>
• † Ternivoluta craticulata <small>(Darragh, 1971)</small>
• † Ternivoluta curvicostata <small>(Darragh, 1971)</small>
• Ternivoluta insperata <small>(Darragh, 1979)</small>
• † Ternivoluta levior <small>(F. McCoy, 1866)</small>
• Ternivoluta pisororum <small>(H. Morrison, 2006)</small>
• Ternivoluta studeri <small>(E. von Martens, 1897)</small>
• † Ternivoluta subcrenulifera <small>(Darragh, 1971)</small>

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