Volutomitra groenlandica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.
Description The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 44 mm.
(Original description as Volutomitra alaskana) The shell is fusiform, with about six moderately convex whorls. The suture is distinct. The surface is wholly minutely spirally striated, covered with an olivaceous periostracum over a white or yellowish shell. The aperture is longer than half the total length, with a rather wide siphonal canal, a callous columella and body in the adult, and simple outer lip. The siphonal canal has a well marked siphonal fasciole, and is slightly flexuous. There are normally four plaits, rarely three or five, strong and rather distant. The protoconch is almost always eroded.Dall, W. H. (1902). A new species of Volutomitra. The Nautilus. 15(9): 102-103
Distribution This marine species occurs off Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada: Devon Island, Nova Scotia; Iceland to Novaya Zemlya, Russia.
References
Bouchet P.; Kantor Y. (2004). New Caledonia: the major centre of biodiversity for volutomitrid molluscs (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Volutomitridae). Systematics and Biodiversity. 1(4): 467-502.
External links Möller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. 4: 76-97 Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213