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Cymbiola flavicans
Apertural view of a shell of Cymbiola flavicans (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Volutidae
Subfamily:
Amoriinae
Genus:
Cymbiola
Subgenus:
Cymbiola
Species:
C. flavicans
Binomial name
Cymbiola flavicans
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
  • Aulica kellneri Iredale, 1957
  • Aulica quaesita Iredale, 1956
  • Cymbiola (Cymbiola) flavicans (Gmelin, 1791) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Voluta lugubris Swainson, 1823
  • Voluta modesta Wood, 1828
  • Voluta signifer Broderip, 1848
  • Voluta tissotiana Crosse, 1867
  • Voluta volvacea Lamarck, 1811

Cymbiola flavicans, common name the yellow volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 60 mm and 100 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland).

References

  1. ^ a b Cymbiola flavicans (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  • Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910.
  • Lamarck, J.P.B.A de M. 1811. Suite de la détermination des espèces de mollusques testacés, Mitre (Mitra). Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 17: 54-80, 195-222
  • Swainson, W. 1823. The characters of several rare and undescribed shells. Philosophical Magazine London 61: 375-378
  • Wood, W. 1828. Index Testaceologicus; or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system. London : Taylor Supplement, pp. 1–59, pls 1-8.
  • Broderip, W.J. 1847. Description of a new species of Volute. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 232-233
  • Crosse, J.C.H. 1867. Description d'espèces nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 3 5: 195-197
  • Iredale, T. 1956. A Northern Australian Volute. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1954-55: 76-77, fig. 71
  • Iredale, T. 1957. Another Australian Volute. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1955-56: 91-92
  • Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1–375.
  • Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107.
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • Bail P. & Poppe G.T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl.
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