Genus Volutoconus Crosse, 1871

Museums

Regional Maps

• Volutoconus Crosse, H. 1871. Description Géographique et Catalogue des espèces actuelles du genre Voluta. Journal de Conchyliologie 3 19: 263-309, pl. 12, fig. 7 [306] [Journal de Conchyliologie, 19(4): 306].

  Type species:

   Voluta coniformis Cox, 1871 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea, Indonesia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

McMichael, D.F. 1960. Notes on some Australian Volutidae. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 1(4): 4-13 [9]

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. [133] (Volutoconus in the subfamily Odontocymbiolinae)

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [117]

Wilson, B.R. 1972. New species and records of Volutidae (Gastropoda) from Western Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 2(3): 339-360 [346]

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. [134]

 

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