Volvatella

Volvatella
Volvatella angeliniana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Volvatellidae
Genus:	Volvatella Pease, 1860
Type species
Volvatella fragilis Pease, 1860
Species
See text
Synonyms [1]
Arthessa Evans, 1950

Volvatella is a genus of sea snails, bubble snails, a marine gastropod sacoglossan mollusk in the family Volvatellidae. ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Volvatella include:

• Volvatella angeliniana Ichikawa, 1993
• Volvatella australis Jensen, 1997
• Volvatella ayakii Hamatani, 1972
• Volvatella bermudae K.B. Clark, 1982
• Volvatella candida Pease, 1868
• Volvatella cincta G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869
• Volvatella elioti (Evans, 1950)
• Volvatella evansi (Kay, 1961)
• Volvatella faviae Á. Valdés & Lozouet, 2000 †
• Volvatella ficula Burn, 1966
• Volvatella fragilis Pease, 1860
• Volvatella kawamurai Habe, 1946
• Volvatella laguncula G.B. Sowerby III, 1894
• Volvatella maculata K. R. Jensen, 2015
• Volvatella omega (Melvill, 1918)
• Volvatella pyriformis Pease, 1868
• Volvatella ventricosa Jensen & Wells, 1990
• Volvatella vigourouxi (Montrouzier, 1861)
• Volvatella viridis Hamatani, 1976

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2011). Volvatella Pease, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204277 on 7 May 2011

• Evans, T. J. (1950). A review of Peases's genus Volvatella, together with a preliminary report on a new sacoglossan genus. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 28(2-3): 102-106.
• Jensen K.R. (2007) Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 55:255–281
• Jensen K. (2015). Sacoglossa (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from northern coasts of Singapore. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. suppl. 31: 226-249

External links

• Pease, W.H. (1860). "Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 28: 20.
• Jensen, K.R. (2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" (PDF). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge. 55.