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Volutidae

18 species · Animals

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Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Neogastropoda › Volutidae

Zidona dufresnii (Donovan, 1823)

Zidona dufresnii is a 164 mm tall-spired species found in shallow South American Atlantic waters.

Adelomelon ancilla (Lightfoot), 1786

Adelomelon ancilla is a medium-sized marine gastropod found off Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and the Falkland Islands.

Pachycymbiola brasiliana (Lamarck, 1811)

Pachycymbiola brasiliana is a species that produces distinctive gelatinous egg orbs, found from southern Brazil to northern Argentina.

Odontocymbiola magellanica (Gmelin, 1791)

Odontocymbiola magellanica is a carnivorous southern ocean sea snail that is commercially fished and currently near threatened.

Cymbium olla (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cymbium olla, the Algarve volute, is a marine gastropod mollusc in the volute family whose processed flesh is used in traditional Senegalese Thieboudienne.

Alcithoe arabica (Gmelin, 1791)

Alcithoe arabica is a large endemic New Zealand sea snail that lives on subtidal soft sediments and preys on bivalves.

Amoria zebra (Leach, 1814)

Amoria zebra is a marine sea snail with variable patterned shells found in Australian intertidal sandy waters.

Amoria undulata (Lamarck, 1804)

Amoria undulata is a species of endemic Australian sea snail found in intertidal to deep sandy or muddy habitats.

Amoria hunteri (Iredale, 1931)

Amoria hunteri is a large-shelled marine gastropod endemic to deep Australian waters off New South Wales and Queensland.

Cymbiola vespertilio (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cymbiola vespertilio is a Central Indo-Pacific sea snail with adult shells ranging 45 to 160 mm.

Cymbiola magnifica (Gebauer, 1802)

Cymbiola magnifica, the magnificent volute, is a large species of sea snail in the volute family Volutidae.

Cymbiola nobilis (Lightfoot), 1786

Cymbiola nobilis is a partially hermaphroditic marine sea snail found across Asia with distinct patterned shells.

Cymbiola complexa Iredale, 1924

Cymbiola complexa Iredale, 1924 is a marine endemic Australian species with shells up to 61 mm long.

Melo amphora (Lightfoot, 1786)

Melo amphora is a large edible sea snail with a distinctive shell, found in tropical southwest Pacific shallow muddy waters.

Melo miltonis (J.E.Gray, 1833)

Melo miltonis is a large volute snail restricted to southwestern Australian coastal waters, with shells historically used as water bailers.

Melo melo (Lightfoot), 1786

Melo melo is a large Southeast Asian sea snail commonly called bailer shell, collected for food and used for its shell.

Lyria mitraeformis (Lamarck, 1811)

Lyria mitraeformis is a species of marine gastropod sea snail in the volute family Volutidae.

Scaphella junonia (Lamarck, 1804)

Scaphella junonia is a mollusk with distinctively marked shells that has two recognized subspecies in Gulf of Mexico waters.

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Muricidae 88 species Conidae 53 species Nassariidae 23 species Columbellidae 17 species Fasciolariidae 17 species Olividae 16 species Terebridae 13 species Mitridae 8 species

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