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:

• † Voluta ambigua (Solander in Brander, 1766)

• Voluta demarcoi Olsson, 1965

• Voluta ebraea Linnaeus, 1758

• Voluta ernesti (Petuch, 1990)

• Voluta garciai (Petuch, 1981)

• † Voluta hamiltonensis Pritchard, 1898

• Voluta harasewychi (Petuch, 1987)

• Voluta hilli (Petuch, 1987)

• † Voluta hornesi Deshayes, 1865

• † Voluta intusdentata Cossmann, 1889

• † Voluta junghuhni K. Martin, 1879

• Voluta kotorai (Petuch, 1981)

• † Voluta mitrata Deshayes, 1835

• † Voluta mitreola Lamarck, 1803

• Voluta morrisoni (Petuch, 1980)

• Voluta musica Linnaeus, 1758

• † Voluta musicalis Lamarck, 1803

• Voluta polypleura Crosse, 1876

• † Voluta quinqueplicata Bayan, 1870

• Voluta retemirabilis (Petuch, 1981)

• Voluta sunderlandi (Petuch, 1987)

• † Voluta supplicata Traub, 1981

• Voluta virescens Lightfoot, 1786

• † Voluta wateleti Deshayes, 1865

• Taxon inquirendum

• Voluta cumingii Broderip, 1832

• Nomen dubium:

• † Voluta corrugata Hutton, 1873

• Subgenera brought into synonymy:

• Voluta (Callipara): synonym of Callipara Gray, 1847

• Voluta (Fulgoraria) Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Fulgoraria Schumacher, 1817

• Voluta (Psephaea) Crosse, 1871: synonym of Fulgoraria (Psephaea) Crosse, 1871

Synonyms

• Voluta ambigua Lahille, 1895: synonym of Odontocymbiola magellanica (Gmelin, 1791)

• Voluta ancilla [Lightfoot], 1786 : synonym of Adelomelon ancilla ([Lightfoot], 1786) (original combination)

• Voluta angulata (Swainson, 1821): synonym of Zidona dufresnei (Donovan, 1823)

• Voluta colocynthis Dillwyn, 1817: synonym of Pachycymbiola brasiliana (Lamarck, 1811)

• Voluta coniformis Cox, 1871: synonym of Volutoconus coniformis (Cox, 1871)

• Voluta cymbiola Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Cymbiola (Cymbiola) cymbiola (Gmelin, 1791)

• Voluta dohrni G.B. Sowerby III, 1903: synonym of Scaphella dohrni (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903)

• Voluta fulgetrum G. B. Sowerby I, 1825: synonym of Ericusa fulgetrum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)

• Voluta fusiformis Kiener, 1839: synonym of Adelomelon beckii (Broderip, 1836)

• Voluta heteroclita Montagu, 1808: synonym of Blauneria heteroclita (Montagu, 1808)

• Voluta hiatula Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Agaronia hiatula (Gmelin, 1791)

• Voluta junonia Lamarck, 1804: synonym of Scaphella junonia (Lamarck, 1804)

• Voluta kreuslerae Angas, 1865: synonym of Notovoluta kreuslerae (Angas, 1865)

• Voluta lacertina Petuch, 1990: synonym of Voluta virescens virescens Lightfoot, 1786

• Voluta lapponica Linnaeus, 1767: synonym of Harpulina lapponica (Linnaeus, 1767)

• Voluta magellanica Chemnitz, 1788: synonym of Adelomelon ancilla (Lightfoot, 1786)

• Voluta magellanica Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Odontocymbiola magellanica (Gmelin, 1791)

• Voluta mammilla G.B. Sowerby I, 1844: synonym of Livonia mammilla (G.B. Sowerby I, 1844)

• Voluta nivosa Lamarck, 1804: synonym of Cymbiola nivosa (Lamarck, 1804)

• Voluta nobilis [Lightfoot], 1786: synonym of Cymbiola nobilis ([Lightfoot], 1786)

• Voluta oviformis Lahille, 1895: synonym of Pachycymbiola ferussacii (Donovan, 1824)

• Voluta paradoxa Lahille, 1895: synonym of Odontocymbiola magellanica (Gmelin, 1791)

• Voluta proboscidalis Lamarck, 1811: synonym of Cymbium glans (Gmelin, 1791)

• Voluta rhinoceros Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Vasum rhinoceros (Gmelin, 1791)

• † Voluta showalteri Aldrich, 1886: synonym of † Euroscaphella showalteri (Aldrich, 1886)

• Voluta tuberculata Swainson, 1821: synonym of Odontocymbiola magellanica (Gmelin, 1791)

• Voluta vespertilio Linnaeus, 1758: synonym of Cymbiola vespertilio (Linnaeus, 1758)

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&#93

• 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.

• 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]