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Voluta musica

Voluta musica, common name the music volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Synonyms

  • Voluta caquetio <small>Berschauer & Ros, 2025</small>
  • Voluta carneolata <small>Lamarck, 1811</small>
  • Voluta chorea <small>Röding, 1798</small>
  • Voluta confusa <small>Röding, 1798</small>
  • Voluta fulva <small>Lamarck, 1811</small>
  • Voluta incarnata <small>Röding, 1798</small>
  • Voluta laevigata <small>Röding, 1798</small>
  • Voluta lineata <small>Röding, 1798</small>
  • Voluta maculata <small>Röding, 1798</small>
  • Voluta musica guineensis <small>Dillwyn, 1817</small>
  • Voluta musica typica <small>Dall, 1907</small>
  • Voluta muta <small>Röding, 1798</small>
  • Voluta nodulosa <small>Lamarck, 1822</small>
  • Voluta plicata <small>Dillwyn, 1817</small>
  • Voluta reticulata <small>Röding, 1798</small>
  • Voluta rosea <small>Röding, 1798</small>
  • Voluta rugifera <small>Dall, 1907</small>
  • Voluta sulcata <small>Lamarck, 1811</small>
  • Voluta thiarella <small>Lamarck, 1811</small>
  • Voluta tobagoensis <small>Verrill, 1953</small>
  • Voluta tobagoensis var. damula <small>Dall, 1907</small>
  • Voluta tobagoensis var. guinaica <small>Lamarck, 1811</small>
  • Voluta turbata <small>Röding, 1798</small>
  • Voluta violacea <small>Lamarck, 1811</small>

Subspecies

  • Voluta musica guineensis Dillwyn, 1817
  • Voluta musica typica Dall, 1907

Distribution

The species occurs on the mainland Caribbean coast in Colombia and Venezuela, and in the West Indies from the following islands or countries: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Shell description

The maximum reported size of the shell is 115&nbsp;mm.

These medium-sized, very solid, axially ribbed shells are characterized by delicate blackish to reddish brown markings on a creamy background color, with a characteristic series of lines resembling a musical manuscript (hence the common name "music volute").

Specimens from the Eastern Caribbean island of Barbados are pink in color (var. "carneolata"). Deeper-water Barbados examples trapped alive at around 100 m. depth are orange in color.

Ecology

Voluta musica is usually found alive in muddy and sandy substrate at depths of 5 m to 28 m., although at Barbados this species has been found with their dorsums dry as they crawl across exposed South Coast reefs at very low tide and have been trapped alive at depths of about 100 m. along the island's West Coast.

It is a predatory carnivorous species, as is the case in other Volutidae. It feeds on invertebrates, bivalves, other gastropods and on decayed material.

Life cycle

Embryos develop into free-swimming planktonic marine larvae (trochophore) and later into juvenile veligers.

Bibliography

  • Abbott, Robert Tucker (1974) - American Seashells: The Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America. 2nd ed. - Van Nostrand Reinhold Company New York
  • Dall, W. H. 1907. A review of the American Volutidae Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 48 341–373.
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae
  • Verrill, A. H. 1950. Voluta musica, its forms, distribution and operculum Conchological Club of Southern California, Minutes 102 3–7.

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