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Erato voluta

Gastropoda - Triviidae

Taxonomy
Cypraea voluta was named by Montagu (1803). It is extant.

It was recombined as Erato (Erato) voluta by Schilder (1941); it was recombined as Erato voluta by Fehse and Landau (2001).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
E. marginata, E. cypraeola, E. domingensis, E. germanica, E. marginata

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1799Voluta laevis Donovan figs. pl. 145
1803Cypraea voluta Montagu
1827Erato laevis Risso
1848Erato laevis Wood p. 18
1925Erato laevis Harmer et al. p. 511
1941Erato (Erato) voluta Schilder p. 71
2001Erato voluta Fehse and Landau

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
superfamilyCypraeoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyTriviidaeTroschel 1863
genusEratoRisso 1826
speciesvoluta(Montagu 1803)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Erato voluta Montagu 1803
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Invalid names: Erato (Erato) laevis Donovan 1799 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: carnivoref
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 08:02:03
Modified: 2009-09-10 10:02:03
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 20.45000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian20.45 - 15.98Italy Erato voluta (178108 178111)
Langhian15.98 - 13.82Italy Erato voluta (178112)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Türkiye Erato laevis (179777)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.58United Kingdom (England) Erato laevis (84764)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.58Italy (Emilia-Romagna) Erato voluta (178117)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.58 - 0.774Italy Erato voluta (78312)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117Morocco Erato laevis (127574)