Species Cymbiola cymbiola (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta cymbiola Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3468].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Oceano indica.
• Voluta corona Dillwyn, L.W. 1817. A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells, arranged according to the Linnaean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London : John and Arthur Arch 2 volumes 1092 + 29 pp. [576].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, no locality given.
• Voluta flammula Wood, W. 1828. Index Testaceologicus; or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system. London : Taylor Supplement, pp. 1-59, pls 1-8. [10].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, locality unknown.

 

Generic Combinations

• Cymbiola cymbiola (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [120, pl. 17, figs 4a-b]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Moluccas, Arafura Sea (Australia); Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, WA across the Arafura Sea to the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, mud-silt, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

75 m.

 

General References

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [159,pl. 64, figs 1-3]

Smith, M. 1942. A review of the Volutidae. Winter Park, Florida : Tropical Photographic Laboratory pp.1-127, pls 1-26, figs 1-185. [35,pl. 17, fig. 113] (as Aulica cymbiola (Chemnitz, 1788))

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. [76,pl. 38A-C]

Wenz, W. 1943. Handbuch der Paläozoologie. Band, 6, Gastropoda. Berlin : Gebrüder Borntraeger Teil 6 pp. 1311-1355, several text figs. [1334, text fig. 3788] (as Cymbiola (Cymbiola) cymbiola (Chemnitz, 1788))

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [120,pl. 17, fig. 4a-b]

 

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