Species Cymbiola nivosa (Lamarck, 1804)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta nivosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1804. Sur deux espèces nouvelles de Volutes des Mers de la Nouvelle-Hollande. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 5: 154-160, pl. 12, figs 1-3 [158, pl. 12, figs 2a, 2b, 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype MHNG 1103.13.1, Les côtes de la Nouvelle-Holland, a la baie des Chiens marins.
• Voluta nivosa nautica Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1804. Sur deux espèces nouvelles de Volutes des Mers de la Nouvelle-Hollande. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 5: 154-160, pl. 12, figs 1-3 [158, pl. 12, figs 2a, 2b].
• Voluta nivosa subspinosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1804. Sur deux espèces nouvelles de Volutes des Mers de la Nouvelle-Hollande. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 5: 154-160, pl. 12, figs 1-3 [159, pl. 12, fig. 3].
• Voluta nivosa coxi Kenyon, A. 1913. A new variety of volute from Western Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 25(2): 354 [354] [as Voluta nivosa var. coxi Kenyon, 1913].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Graden Island, WA.

 

Generic Combinations

• Cymbiola nivosa (Lamarck, 1804).

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Fremantle 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 40 m.

 

General References

Bail, P. & Limpus, A. 1997. The genus Cymbiola Swainson, 1831 in Western Australia. World Shells 20: 4-11 [8, figs 24-33]

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 27-28] (As C. nivosa form nivosa)

McMichael, D.F. 1960. Shells of the Australian sea-shore. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 127 pp., 287 figs. [Date published December] [96] (as Aulicina nivosa)

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [164,pl. 65, figs 1-6,pl. 66, fig. 5]

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. 35F-I]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [121]

 

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] (Snowy Volute)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [253] (Blotched Snowflake 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)
		16-May-2013	MODIFIED