''Cymbiola flavicans'', common name the yellow volute, is a

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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in the

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Volutidae ''Volutidae'', common name volutes, are a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails that range in size from 9 mm to over 500 mm. They are marine gastropod mollusks. Most of the species have no operculum. Distribution This family of sea snails ...

, the volutes.

Description

The size of the shell varies between 60 mm and 100 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off

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and Australia (

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References

* Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. * Lamarck, J.P.B.A de M. 1811. ''Suite de la détermination des espèces de mollusques testacés, Mitre (Mitra).'' Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 17: 54–80, 195–222 * Swainson, W. 1823. ''The characters of several rare and undescribed shells.'' Philosophical Magazine London 61: 375–378 * Wood, W. 1828. I''ndex Testaceologicus; or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system''. London : Taylor Supplement, pp. 1–59, pls 1–8. * Broderip, W.J. 1847. ''Description of a new species of Volute.'' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 232–233 * Crosse, J.C.H. 1867. ''Description d'espèces nouvelles.'' Journal de Conchyliologie 3 5: 195–197 * Iredale, T. 1956. ''A Northern Australian Volute.'' Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1954–55: 76–77, fig. 71 * Iredale, T. 1957. ''Another Australian Volute''. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1955–56: 91–92 * Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. ''Living Volutes – A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1.'' Greenville Delaware :

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pp. 1–375. * Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. ''Volutes''. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1–107. * Wilson, B. 1994. ''Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods''. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. * Bail P. & Poppe G.T. 2001. ''A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae.'' ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl.

External links

* Volutidae Gastropods described in 1791 {{Volutidae-stub