Volutharpa perryi explained

Volutharpa perryi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 57 mm.

The shell is ovately globulose, rather thin and inflated towards the base. The spire is short and acute. The sutures are impressed. The whorls are smooth. The color of the shell is yellowish ash. The interior of the aperture is rusty brown.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan, in the Yellow Sea, the Korea sea and off Alaska and British Columbia, Canada.

External links

• Jay, J. C. (1857 ("1856")). Report on the shells collected by the Japan Expedition together with a list of Japan shells. In: Perry, M. C.; Hawks, F. L. (eds). Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Sea and Japan, performed in the year 1852, 1853 and 1854, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the Government of the United States. Vol. 2. Tucker, Washington, pp. 289–297, pls. 1-5
• Tapparone Canefri, C. (1882). Museum Pauluccianum. Etudes malacologiques II. Journal de Conchyliologie. 30(1): 22-36, pl. 2
• Adams, A. (1870). On some proboscidiferous gasteropods which inhabit the seas of Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History,. Series 4, 5: 418–430
• Rolle, H. (1892). Diagnosen neuer Arten. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoolischen Gesellschaft. 24(3-4); pp. 50-52

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Volutharpa perryi (Jay, 1857). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=491384 on 2023-07-04
2. http://ia600307.us.archive.org/12/items/manualofconcholo3tryo/manualofconcholo3tryo.pdf G.W. Tryon (1880-1881) Manual of Conchology III, Academy of natural Sciences, Philadelphia