Voluta garciai explained

Voluta garciai is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 71 mm, its diameter 34 mm. The shell's color is a light brown with black areas

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Gorda Bank to Trujillo Bay, Honduras.

Further reading

• Petuch E.J. (1981). A volutid species radiation from northern Honduras, with notes on the Honduran Caloosahatchian Secondary Relict Pocket. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 94(4): 1110-1130
• Berschauer D.P. (2019). A review of the Voluta polypleura - demarcoi complex. The Festivus. 51(3): 184-197

Notes and References

1. Web site: WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Voluta garciai (Petuch, 1981) . 2024-03-16 . www.marinespecies.org.