Cymbiola flavicans

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. 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.

External links

• Gastropods.com: Cymbiola flavicans