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Voluta musica

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

Taxonomy
Voluta musica was named by Linnaeus (1758) [DISTRIBUTION: Pleistocene-Recent; Caribbean.]. It is extant. It is the type species of Voluta.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
V. conspicua, V. crenistria, V. cretacea

Synonyms
  • Voluta carneolata was named by Lamarck (1811) [DISTRIBUTION: Recent; Caribbean.]. It is extant.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Voluta musica by Weisbord (1962).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Voluta musica Linnaeus p. 733
1811Voluta carneolata Lamarck p. 67
1962Voluta musica Weisbord p. 396
1964Voluta musica Woodring p. 287
2010Voluta musica Landau and Marques da Silva p. 80

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyVolutidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyVolutinaeRafinesque 1815
genusVolutaLinnaeaus 1758
speciesmusicaLinnaeus 1758

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.

Voluta musica Linnaeus 1758
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Invalid names: Voluta carneolata Lamarck 1811 [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 08:23:59
Modified: 2009-09-10 10:23:59
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009
Collections
No collection or age range data are available