Species Phenacovolva rosea (Adams, 1854)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Volva rosea Adams, A. 1854. Descriptions of a new genus, and of several new species of Mollusca, from the Cumingian collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1852(20): 92-95 [130, pl. 28, fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype "China", restricted to Kii, Kii Channel, Japan [34°00'N, 134°48'E].
• Volva adamsi Dunker, W. 1877. Mollusca nonnulla nova maris japonici. Malakozoologische Blätter 24: 67-75 [75].
• Volva carpenteri Dunker, W. 1877. Mollusca nonnulla nova maris japonici. Malakozoologische Blätter 24: 67-75 [75].
• Ovula philippinarum Tryon, G.W. 1885. Manual of Conchology - Structural and Systematic: With Illustrations of the Species. 1 Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 7 308, 63 pl. [1885].
• Neosimnia lanceolata Allan, J. 1956. Cowry Shells of World Seas. Melbourne : Georgian House 170 pp. [127].

 

Generic Combinations

• Volva (Phenacovolva) nectarea (Iredale, 1930). —
  Schilder, F.A. 1941. Verwandtschaft und Verbreitung der Cypraeacea. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 73(2-3): 57-120, pl. 8-9 [110]
• Phenacovolva (Phenacovolva) rosea nectarea (Iredale, 1930). —
  Cate, C.N. 1973. A systematic revision of the Recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger supplement 15: 1-116 [94]
• Phenacovolva (Phenacovolva) rosea rosea (Adams, 1854). —
  Cate, C.N. 1973. A systematic revision of the Recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger supplement 15: 1-116 [93]
• Ovulum roseum (Adams, 1854). —
  Reeve, L.A. 1865. Monograph of the genus Ovulum. pls 1, 3-14 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 15. [pl. 10, figs 44a-b]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Lives on a variety of octocorals

 

General References

Cate, C.N. 1973. A systematic revision of the Recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger supplement 15: 1-116 [93-94]

Coleman, N. 2003. 2002 Sea shells catalogue of Indo-Pacific mollusca. Queensland, Australia : Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd pp.1-144. [90]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [59]

Lorenz, F. & Fehse, D. 2009. The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. ConchBooks pp. 1-651. [122, pls 168, 169, 171, A274-A300]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [203, pl. 24, figs 5 a-c]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CYPRAEOIDEA	07-Mar-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		05-Mar-2012	MOVED
		26-Nov-2013	MODIFIED