Genus Cymbiola Swainson, 1831

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cymbiola Swainson, W. 1831. Zoological Illustrations, or Original Figures and Descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of Ornithology, Entomology, and Conchology, and arranged according to their natural affinities. London : Baldwin & Craddock Vol. 2 pls 77, 83, 84, 87. [83].

  Type species:

   Voluta cymbiola Sowerby by original designation (by tautonymy).
• Aulica Gray, 1847.
• Aulicina Rovereto, 1899.
• Cymbiolena Iredale, 1929.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1-375. [75]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Moluccas, Papua New Guinea, Coral Sea, Philippines, New Caledonia, Indonesia, Singapore, South China Sea, Taiwan, Thailand (E), Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Arafura Sea (Australia), Timor Sea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Kenn Transition (16), Northeast Province (18), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

General References

Bail, P. & Limpus, A. 1997. The genus Cymbiola Swainson, 1831 in Western Australia. World Shells 20: 4-11 [4]

Darragh, T.A. 1989. A revision of the Tertiary Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of south-eastern Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 49: 195-307 [259]

Neave, S.A. 1939. Nomenclator Zoologicus: A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the end of 1935. London : Zoological Society of London Vol. I(A–C) 957 pp. [932] (separate entries for "Cymbiola Swainson, 1834" and "Cymbiola Gray, 1847"; however, Gray explicitly attributed Cymbiola to Swainson)

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [31] (two subgenera- Cymbiola and Cymbiolacca)

Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1-375. [75]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [120]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	OLIVOIDEA	02-Feb-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		28-Nov-2011	MODIFIED