Voluta is a genus of medium to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Species
Species in the genus Voluta include:
- â Voluta ambigua <small>(Solander in Brander, 1766)</small>
- Voluta demarcoi <small>Olsson, 1965</small>
- Voluta ebraea <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small>
- Voluta ernesti <small>(Petuch, 1990)</small>
- Voluta garciai <small>(Petuch, 1981)</small>
- â Voluta hamiltonensis <small>Pritchard, 1898</small>
- Voluta harasewychi <small>(Petuch, 1987)</small>
- Voluta hilli <small>(Petuch, 1987)</small>
- â Voluta hornesi <small>Deshayes, 1865</small>
- â Voluta intusdentata <small>Cossmann, 1889</small>
- â Voluta junghuhni <small>K. Martin, 1879</small>
- Voluta kotorai <small>(Petuch, 1981)</small>
- â Voluta mitrata <small>Deshayes, 1835</small>
- â Voluta mitreola <small>Lamarck, 1803</small>
- Voluta morrisoni <small>(Petuch, 1980)</small>
- Voluta musica <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small>
- â Voluta musicalis <small>Lamarck, 1803</small>
- Voluta polypleura <small>Crosse, 1876</small>
- â Voluta quinqueplicata <small>Bayan, 1870</small>
- Voluta retemirabilis <small>(Petuch, 1981)</small>
- Voluta sunderlandi <small>(Petuch, 1987)</small>
- â Voluta supplicata <small>Traub, 1981</small>
- Voluta virescens <small>Lightfoot, 1786</small>
- â Voluta wateleti <small>Deshayes, 1865</small>
Taxon inquirendum
- Voluta cumingii <small>Broderip, 1832</small>
Nomen dubium:
- â Voluta corrugata <small>Hutton, 1873</small>
Subgenera brought into synonymy:
- Voluta (Callipara): synonym of Callipara <small>Gray, 1847</small>
- Voluta (Fulgoraria) <small>Schumacher, 1817</small>: synonym of Fulgoraria <small>Schumacher, 1817</small>
- Voluta (Psephaea) <small>Crosse, 1871</small>: synonym of Fulgoraria (Psephaea) <small>Crosse, 1871</small>
Synonyms
- Voluta ambigua <small>Lahille, 1895</small>: synonym of Odontocymbiola magellanica <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Voluta ancilla <small>[Lightfoot], 1786</small> : synonym of Adelomelon ancilla <small>([Lightfoot], 1786)</small> (original combination)
- Voluta angulata <small>(Swainson, 1821)</small>: synonym of Zidona dufresnei <small>(Donovan, 1823)</small>
- Voluta colocynthis <small>Dillwyn, 1817</small>: synonym of Pachycymbiola brasiliana <small>(Lamarck, 1811)</small>
- Voluta coniformis Cox, 1871: synonym of Volutoconus coniformis <small>(Cox, 1871)</small>
- Voluta cymbiola <small>Gmelin, 1791</small>: synonym of Cymbiola (Cymbiola) cymbiola <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Voluta dohrni <small>G.B. Sowerby III, 1903</small>: synonym of Scaphella dohrni <small>(G.B. Sowerby III, 1903)</small>
- Voluta fulgetrum <small>G. B. Sowerby I, 1825</small>: synonym of Ericusa fulgetrum <small>(G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)</small>
- Voluta fusiformis <small>Kiener, 1839</small>: synonym of Adelomelon beckii <small>(Broderip, 1836)</small>
- Voluta heteroclita <small>Montagu, 1808</small>: synonym of Blauneria heteroclita <small>(Montagu, 1808)</small>
- Voluta hiatula <small>Gmelin, 1791</small>: synonym of Agaronia hiatula <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Voluta junonia <small>Lamarck, 1804</small>: synonym of Scaphella junonia <small>(Lamarck, 1804)</small>
- Voluta kreuslerae <small>Angas, 1865</small>: synonym of Notovoluta kreuslerae <small>(Angas, 1865)</small>
- Voluta lacertina <small>Petuch, 1990</small>: synonym of Voluta virescens virescens <small>Lightfoot, 1786</small>
- Voluta lapponica <small>Linnaeus, 1767</small>: synonym of Harpulina lapponica <small>(Linnaeus, 1767)</small>
- Voluta magellanica <small>Chemnitz, 1788</small>: synonym of Adelomelon ancilla <small>(Lightfoot, 1786)</small>
- Voluta magellanica <small>Gmelin, 1791</small>: synonym of Odontocymbiola magellanica <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Voluta mammilla <small>G.B. Sowerby I, 1844</small>: synonym of Livonia mammilla <small>(G.B. Sowerby I, 1844)</small>
- Voluta nivosa <small>Lamarck, 1804</small>: synonym of Cymbiola nivosa <small>(Lamarck, 1804)</small>
- Voluta nobilis <small>[Lightfoot], 1786</small>: synonym of Cymbiola nobilis <small>([Lightfoot], 1786)</small>
- Voluta oviformis <small>Lahille, 1895</small>: synonym of Pachycymbiola ferussacii <small>(Donovan, 1824)</small>
- Voluta paradoxa <small>Lahille, 1895</small>: synonym of Odontocymbiola magellanica <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Voluta proboscidalis <small>Lamarck, 1811</small>: synonym of Cymbium glans <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Voluta rhinoceros <small>Gmelin, 1791</small>: synonym of Vasum rhinoceros <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- â Voluta showalteri <small>Aldrich, 1886</small>: synonym of â Euroscaphella showalteri <small>(Aldrich, 1886)</small>
- Voluta tuberculata <small>Swainson, 1821</small>: synonym of Odontocymbiola magellanica <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Voluta vespertilio <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small>: synonym of Cymbiola vespertilio <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
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]
- 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]