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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Volutoidea: Volutidae

Voluta ebraea Linnaeus, 1758


Range: 1°S to 13°S; 48°W to 34.9°W
Depth: 0 to 40 m
Maximum Reported Size: 240  mm

Synonymy

Voluta ebraea Linnaeus, 1758
Voluta chlorosina Lamarck, 1811
Voluta turbinata Kiener, 1839

Details


Voluta ebraea Linnaeus, 1758, p. 733, [Bonan. 3, t. 293; Rumph. t. 32, f. I; Gualt. t. 28, f. I; Argen. t. 17, f. D]
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: in O[ceano] Asiatico
Range: 1°S to 13°S; 48°W to 34.9°W
Depth: 0 to 40 m
Maximum Reported Size: 240 mm
Distribution: Brazil: Para, Maranhao, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Bahia
References: Mello & Perrier (1986) E; Coltro (2005a) M

Voluta chlorosina Lamarck, 1811d, p. 66
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Unknown
Maximum Reported Size: 55 mm
References: Lamarck (1811d) M

Voluta hebraea sic, 
[Not available]
Comments: Error for ebraea by Gmelin (1791).

Voluta turbinata Kiener, 1839a, p. 19-20, pl. 26, fig. 2
[Synonymy uncertain]
Type Locality: l'Océan Indien
Maximum Reported Size: 90 mm
References: Kiener (1839a) M


Partial List of References

Kiener, L. C. 1839. Genre Volute. (Voluta, Lam.) Spécies Général et Iconographie des Coquilles Vivantes 3 70 pp., 52 pls.
Lamarck, [J. B.] 1811. Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques Testacés. Volute. (Voluta.) Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 17 54-80.
Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae Systema Naturae, 10th ed., vol. 1 824 pp. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae [Stockholm, Sweden].

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