Voluta virescens

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Voluta virescens
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A shell of Voluta virescens
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Voluta
Species:
V. virescens
Binomial name
Voluta virescens
Synonyms [1]

Voluta polyzonalisLamarck, 1811
Voluta pusioSwainson, 1823

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Voluta virescens, common name the green music volute, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Description

The maximum reported shell length for this species is 114 mm. [2]

Original description of Voluta virescens lindae: "Shell small for genus, stocky with wide, sharp-angled shoulder; shoulder ornamented with 10 large, point knobs; body whorl below shoulder (anterior to) heavily sculptured with large, well-developed, axial plications and numerous large spiral cords; axial plications and spiral cords intersect to produce reticulated, fenestrate sculpture pattern; outer lip flaring; shell color bright canary yellow with band of large tan checkers just below shoulder and numerous, pale tan patches scattered over body whorl; bright yellow and tan base color overlaid with 8 evenly-spaced, thin bands of dark brown and yellow dashes; areas between dashed bands covered with dense masses of pale tan dots; area between suture and shoulder characteristically smooth, copiously covered with evenly-spaced tan dots; protoconch very large in proportion to shell size, protracted, cylindrical in shape; protoconch bright yellow; columella and aperture yellow; columella with 11 plications." [3]

Subspecies

Voluta virescens contains the following subspecies: [1]

Distribution

Locus typicus of Voluta virescens lindae: "Off Bocas del Toro, Panama." [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Voluta polypleura Crosse, 1876. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 30 March 2010.
  2. ↑ "Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca". Voluta virescens Lightfoot, 1786. 2009. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
  3. 1 2 Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 72. Publ: CERF


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