Species Cymbiola flavicans (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta flavicans 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] [3456].
• Voluta volvacea Lamarck, J.P.B.A de M. 1811. Suite de la détermination des espèces de mollusques testacés, Mitre (Mitra). Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 17: 54-80, 195-222 [72].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, l'Océan africain, les côtes de la Guinée (in error).
• Voluta lugubris Swainson, W. 1823. The characters of several rare and undescribed shells. Philosophical Magazine London 61: 375-378 [378].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, locality unknown.
• Voluta modesta 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. [11, fig. 24].
• Voluta signifer Broderip, W.J. 1847. Description of a new species of Volute. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 232-233 [232].
• Voluta tissotiana Crosse, J.C.H. 1867. Description d'espèces nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 3 5: 195-197 [195, pl. 6, fig. 1].
• Aulica quaesita Iredale, T. 1956. A Northern Australian Volute. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1954-55: 76-77, fig. 71 [76, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.61373 dry, Arnhem Land, Boucaut Bay, Northern Territory, Australia [12°0'0'S,134°26'60'E].
• Aulica kellneri Iredale, T. 1957. Another Australian Volute. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1955-56: 91-92 [91, unnumbered plate].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.105259 dry, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia [12°4'58.8'S,134°52'58.8'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Cymbiola flavicans (Gmelin, 1791).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea; Darwin to the Gulf of Carpentaria and the south coast of Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, mud-silt, shallow subtidal, subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 9 m.

 

General References

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [160,pl. 70, figs 1-4]

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. [80,pl. 32G-I]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [120,pl. 17, fig. 1a-b]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [166] (Yellow Volute)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [41] (Mud Volute)

 

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