Species Cymbiola sophia (Gray, 1846)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta sophia Gray, J.E. 1846. A new species of Volute. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18(121): 431 [431].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, "North Australia, Endeavour Sound" (Endeavour Strait, north Queensland, Australia).

 

Generic Combinations

• Cymbiola sophia (Gray, 1846).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental shelf, intertidal, marine, mud-silt, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 36 m.

 

General References

Bail, P. & Limpus, A. 1997. The genus Cymbiola Swainson, 1831 in Western Australia. World Shells 21-22: 5-17 [14, figs 84-103]

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 31-32]

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [167,pl. 64, figs 4-7]

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. [89,pl. 37A-C]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [123,pl. 17, fig. 6a-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. [167] (as Cymbiola sophiae) (Sophia'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