Malacolog 4.1.1: Western Atlantic Mollusk Species Database at The Academy of Natural Sciences

Malacolog Version 4.1.1

A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

Gastropoda: : Cypraeoidea: Ovulidae

Volva volva (Linnaeus, 1758)
Not found in the Western Atlantic

Maximum Reported Size: 52 mm

Synonymy

Bulla volva Linnaeus, 1758
Ovula striata Lamarck, 1811

Details

Bulla volva Linnaeus, 1758, p. 725-726, [List. Conch. 4, s. 9, c. 9, t. 1, f. 1; Argenville conch. t. 21, f. I]
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: ad Jamaicam [in error]

Ovula volva var. striata Lamarck, 1811b, p. 113-114
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Brésil [in error]
Maximum Reported Size: 52 mm
Comments: Mislocalized Volva volva, Indo-Pacific.

Partial List of References

Lamarck, [J. B.] 1811. [Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques Testacés.] Ovule. (Ovula.) Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 16 109-114. [Stated date: -- --- 1810; true date: -- --- 1811.]
Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae Systema Naturae, 10th ed., vol. 1 824 pp. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae [Stockholm, Sweden].

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