Voluta is a genus of medium to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
Species
Species in the genus Voluta include:[2][3]
- † Voluta ambigua (Solander in Brander, 1766)
- Voluta demarcoi Olsson, 1965
- Voluta ebraea Linnaeus, 1758
- Voluta ernesti (Petuch, 1990)
- Voluta garciai (Petuch, 1981)
- † Voluta hamiltonensis Pritchard, 1898
- Voluta harasewychi (Petuch, 1987)
- Voluta hilli (Petuch, 1987)
- † Voluta hornesi Deshayes, 1865
- † Voluta intusdentata Cossmann, 1889
- † Voluta junghuhni K. Martin, 1879
- Voluta kotorai (Petuch, 1981)
- † Voluta mitrata Deshayes, 1835
- † Voluta mitreola Lamarck, 1803
- Voluta morrisoni (Petuch, 1980)
- Voluta musica Linnaeus, 1758
- † Voluta musicalis Lamarck, 1803
- Voluta polypleura Crosse, 1876
- † Voluta quinqueplicata Bayan, 1870
- Voluta retemirabilis (Petuch, 1981)
- Voluta sunderlandi (Petuch, 1987)
- † Voluta supplicata Traub, 1981
- Voluta virescens Lightfoot, 1786
- † Voluta wateleti Deshayes, 1865
- Voluta cumingii Broderip, 1832
- Nomen dubium
- † Voluta corrugata Hutton, 1873
- Subgenera brought into synonymy
- Voluta (Callipara): synonym of Callipara Gray, 1847
- Voluta (Fulgoraria) Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Fulgoraria Schumacher, 1817
- Voluta (Psephaea) Crosse, 1871: synonym of Fulgoraria (Psephaea) Crosse, 1871
Synonyms
- Voluta ambigua Lahille, 1895: synonym of Odontocymbiola magellanica (Gmelin, 1791)
- Voluta ancilla [Lightfoot], 1786 : synonym of Adelomelon ancilla ([Lightfoot], 1786) (original combination)
- Voluta angulata (Swainson, 1821): synonym of Zidona dufresnei (Donovan, 1823)
- Voluta colocynthis Dillwyn, 1817: synonym of Pachycymbiola brasiliana (Lamarck, 1811)
- Voluta coniformis Cox, 1871: synonym of Volutoconus coniformis (Cox, 1871)
- Voluta cymbiola Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Cymbiola (Cymbiola) cymbiola (Gmelin, 1791)
- Voluta dohrni G.B. Sowerby III, 1903: synonym of Scaphella dohrni (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903)
- Voluta fulgetrum G. B. Sowerby I, 1825: synonym of Ericusa fulgetrum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
- Voluta fusiformis Kiener, 1839: synonym of Adelomelon beckii (Broderip, 1836)
- Voluta heteroclita Montagu, 1808: synonym of Blauneria heteroclita (Montagu, 1808)
- Voluta hiatula Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Agaronia hiatula (Gmelin, 1791)
- Voluta junonia Lamarck, 1804: synonym of Scaphella junonia (Lamarck, 1804)
- Voluta kreuslerae Angas, 1865: synonym of Notovoluta kreuslerae (Angas, 1865)
- Voluta lacertina Petuch, 1990: synonym of Voluta virescens virescens Lightfoot, 1786
- Voluta lapponica Linnaeus, 1767: synonym of Harpulina lapponica (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Voluta magellanica Chemnitz, 1788: synonym of Adelomelon ancilla (Lightfoot, 1786)
- Voluta magellanica Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Odontocymbiola magellanica (Gmelin, 1791)
- Voluta mammilla G.B. Sowerby I, 1844: synonym of Livonia mammilla (G.B. Sowerby I, 1844)
- Voluta nivosa Lamarck, 1804: synonym of Cymbiola nivosa (Lamarck, 1804)
- Voluta nobilis [Lightfoot], 1786: synonym of Cymbiola nobilis ([Lightfoot], 1786)
- Voluta oviformis Lahille, 1895: synonym of Pachycymbiola ferussacii (Donovan, 1824)
- Voluta paradoxa Lahille, 1895: synonym of Odontocymbiola magellanica (Gmelin, 1791)
- Voluta proboscidalis Lamarck, 1811: synonym of Cymbium glans (Gmelin, 1791)
- Voluta rhinoceros Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Vasum rhinoceros (Gmelin, 1791)
- † Voluta showalteri Aldrich, 1886: synonym of † Euroscaphella showalteri (Aldrich, 1886)
- Voluta tuberculata Swainson, 1821: synonym of Odontocymbiola magellanica (Gmelin, 1791)
- Voluta vespertilio Linnaeus, 1758: synonym of Cymbiola vespertilio (Linnaeus, 1758)
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A shell of the Hebrew volute, Voluta ebraea -
A shell of the De Marcoi’s volute, Voluta polypleura -
A shell of the green music volute, Voluta virescens
References
- ^ a b Bouchet, Philippe (201). “Voluta Linnaeus, 1758″. WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2011-03-17.
- ^ “Voluta”. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
- ^ “Volutidae”. Malacolog. Version 4.1.1. Academy of Natural Sciences. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
- Bail, P & Poppe, G. T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim-Conchbook, 30 pp, 5 pl.
External links
- Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [book]. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae, vol. 1, 824 pp
- Mörch O.A.L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d’Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi […]. Fasc. 1, Cephalophora, 170 pp. [1852]; Fasc. 2, Acephala, Annulata, Cirripedia, Echinodermata, 74 [+2] pp. [1853]. Hafniae [Copenhagen]
- Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp
- Gray J.E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 129-219.
- Schlotheim, E. F. von. (1813). Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Versteinerungen in geognostischer Hinsicht. Taschenbuch für die gesammte Mineralogie, mit Hinsicht auf die neuesten Entdeckungen, herausgegeben von Dr. Carl Caesar Leonhard. 7: 3-134
- Martens, E. von. (1881). Schlussbemerkung [über Voluta. Conchologische Mittheilungen als Fortsetzung der Novitates Conchologicae. 2(1-2): 127-128]