Voluta

Voluta is a genus of medium to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes.^[1]

Voluta
The Hebrew volute Voluta ebraea in its natural habitat
Dorsal (left) and ventral (right) views of a shell of Voluta musica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Volutoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Volutinae
Genus:	Voluta Iredale, 1938
Type species
Voluta musica Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
Chlorosina Gray, 1858 Harpula Swainson, 1831 Musica Gray, 1847 Plejona Röding, 1798 Scaphella (Voluta) Linnaeus (unaccepted combination) Vespertilio Mörch, 1852 (invalid: junior homonym of Vespertilio Linnaeus, 1758 [Mammalia] and junior objective synonym of Scapha Gray, 1847) Volutarius Duméril, 1806 † Volutites Schlotheim, 1813 (invalid: established for fossils of Voluta to distinguish them from extant members of that taxon (Art. 20).) Volutolyria Crosse, 1877

Species

Species in the genus Voluta include:^[2][3]

• † 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)

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  A shell of the Hebrew volute, Voluta ebraea
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  A shell of the De Marcoi's volute, Voluta polypleura
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  A shell of the green music volute, Voluta virescens