Species Cymbiola irvinae (Smith, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta irvinae Smith, E.A. 1909. Notes of Voluta norrisii, V. piperata, V. sophia and description of a new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 4: 95-98, pl. 5 [97, pl. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype Rottnest Island, Fremantle, Western Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Cymbiola irvinae (Smith, 1909).

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Esperance to Shark Bay, Western Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, on gravel, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

From 45 m; to 225 m.

 

General References

Bail, P. & Limpus, A. 1997. The genus Cymbiola Swainson, 1831 in Western Australia. World Shells 20: 4-11 [6, figs 10-12]

Bail, P. & Limpus, A. 2014. A new species of Cymbiola (Gastropoda: Volutidae) from Western Australia. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie. Supplément 2(22-27) [figs 3, 7, 21-22]

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [163,pl. 66, 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. [85,pl. 35A-C]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [120,pl. 17, fig. 5a-b]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [130,pl. 87, fig. 1] (as Aulicina irivinae)

 

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] (Irvin's 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