Harpovoluta charcoti

Harpovoluta charcoti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Cymbiinae
Genus:	Harpovoluta
Species:	H. charcoti
Binomial name
Harpovoluta charcoti (Lamy, 1910)
Synonyms[1]
Buccinum charcoti Lamy, 1910 (original combination) Harpovoluta vanhoeffeni Thiele, 1912 Harpovoluta vanhoeffeni var. striatula Thiele, 1912

Harpovoluta charcoti 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 25 mm and 75 mm.

Distribution

Harpovoluta charcoti is widely found in and around Antarctica/sub-Antarctic or Southern Ocean. ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. Harpovoluta charcoti (Lamy, 1910).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
2. Australian Antarctic Data Center (2007). "Harpovoluta charcoti".
3. Scientia Marina (2008). "The gastropod-symbiotic sea anemone genus".

• Lamy, E. 1910. Mission dans l'Antarctique dirigé par M. le Dr. Charcot (1908-1910): Collections recueillies par M. le Dr. Jacques Liouville: Gastropodes prosobranches et scaphopodes. Bulletin Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 16: 318-324
• Thiele, J. 1912. Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln. pp. 183-285, pls 11-19 in Thiele, J. (ed). Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903. Berlin : Georg Reimer Vol. 13.
• Dell, R.K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27: 1-311
• Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.

External links

• Gastropods.com: Harpovoluta charcoti
• Harpovoluta charcoti (Lamy, 1910). Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2012) The SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS).