Voluta Explained

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]

• † 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

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

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)

References

• 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&#93
• 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]

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, Philippe. 201. Voluta Linnaeus, 1758. 382264. 2011-03-17.
2. Web site: Volutidae . Malacolog . Version 4.1.1. Academy of Natural Sciences. 2009-09-26.