Voluta

Voluta is a genus of medium to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Voluta
The Hebrew volute Voluta ebraea in its natural habitat
Dorsal (left) and ventral (right) views of a shell of Voluta musica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Voluta Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Voluta musica Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
Chlorosina Gray, 1858 Harpula Swainson, 1831 Musica Gray, 1847 Plejona Röding, 1798 Vespertilio Mörch, 1852 (invalid: junior homonym of Vespertilio Linnaeus, 1758 [Mammalia] and junior objective synonym of Scapha Gray, 1847) Volutarius Duméril, 1806 Volutolyria Crosse, 1877

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 harasewychi (Petuch, 1987)
• Voluta hilli (Petuch, 1987)
• Voluta kotorai (Petuch, 1981)
• Voluta morrisoni (Petuch, 1980)
• Voluta musica Linnaeus, 1758
• Voluta polypleura Crosse, 1876
• Voluta retemirabilis (Petuch, 1981)
• Voluta sunderlandi (Petuch, 1987)
• Voluta virescens Lightfoot, 1786

Taxon inquirendum

• 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

Species brought into synonymy

• 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 heteroclita Montagu, 1808: synonym of Blauneria heteroclita (Montagu, 1808)
• Voluta hiatula Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Agaronia hiatula (Gmelin, 1791)
• 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 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 rhinoceros Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Vasum rhinoceros (Gmelin, 1791)

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  A shell of the Hebrew volute, Voluta ebraea
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  A shell of the De Marcoi's volute, Voluta polypleura
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  A shell of the green music volute, Voluta virescens

References

1. Bail, P. (2010). Voluta Linnaeus, 1758. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382264 on 2011-03-17
2. "Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)". Retrieved 2009-09-26.
3. "Malacolog ver 4.1.1". Academy of Natural Sciences. 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

• innaeus, 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]:
• 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.