''Voluta musica'',
common name the music volute, is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
sea snail, a
marine gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the family
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.
Synonyms
* ''Voluta carneolata''
Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1811
* ''Voluta chorea''
Röding, 1798
* ''Voluta confusa''
Röding, 1798
* ''Voluta fulva''
Lamarck, 1811
* ''Voluta incarnata''
Röding, 1798
* ''Voluta laevigata''
Röding, 1798
* ''Voluta lineata''
Röding, 1798
* ''Voluta maculata''
Röding, 1798
* ''Voluta musica guineensis''
Dillwyn, 1817
* ''Voluta musica typica''
Dall, 1907
* ''Voluta muta''
Röding, 1798
* ''Voluta nodulosa''
Lamarck, 1822
* ''Voluta plicata''
Dillwyn, 1817
* ''Voluta reticulata''
Röding, 1798
* ''Voluta rosea''
Röding, 1798
* ''Voluta rugifera''
Dall, 1907
* ''Voluta sulcata''
Lamarck, 1811
* ''Voluta thiarella''
Lamarck, 1811
* ''Voluta tobagoensis''
Verrill, 1953
* ''Voluta tobagoensis'' var. damula
Dall, 1907
* ''Voluta tobagoensis'' var. guinaica
Lamarck, 1811
* ''Voluta turbata''
Röding, 1798
* ''Voluta violacea''
Lamarck, 1811
Subspecies
* ''Voluta musica guineensis'' Dillwyn, 1817
* ''Voluta musica typica'' Dall, 1907
Distribution
The species occurs on the mainland
Caribbean coast in
Colombia and
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
, and in the
West Indies
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from the following islands or countries:
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...
,
Puerto Rico
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,
Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands ( es, Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. They are geologically and biogeographically the easternmost part of the Greater Antilles, the northern islands belonging to the Puerto Rico Trench and St. Cro ...
,
St. Lucia
Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerin ...
,
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate) ...
,
St. Vincent & the Grenadines,
Grenada, and
Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of Gr ...
.
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Shell description
The maximum reported size of the shell is 115 mm.[M. Salomé Rangel, Alejandro Tagliafico, Jeremy Mendoza, Luis Freites, José Silva, Abel Vásquez, Natividad García (201]
Population, reproductive and ecological aspects of the music volute Voluta musica (Caenogastropoda: Volutidae) in northeastern Venezuela
Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences 6 (2), S. 121-137.
Specimens from the Eastern Caribbean island of Barbados are pink in color (var. "carneolata"). Deeper-water Barbados examples trapped alive at around 100 m. depth are orange in color.
Ecology
''Voluta musica'' is usually found alive in muddy and sandy substrate at depths of 5 m to 28 m.,predatory
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill th ...
carnivorous species, as is the case in other 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 ...
. It feeds on invertebrates, bivalves, other gastropods and on decayed material.[
]
Life cycle
Embryos develop into free-swimming planktonic marine larvae ( trocophore) and later into juvenile veligers.Sealife Base
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Bibliography
* Abbott, Robert Tucker (1974) - American Seashells: The Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America. 2nd ed. - Van Nostrand Reinhold Company New York
* Dall, W. H. 1907. A review of the American Volutidae Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 48 341-373.
* Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae
* Verrill, A. H. 1950. Voluta musica, its forms, distribution and operculum Conchological Club of Southern California, Minutes 102 3-7.
References
External links
ITIS
Encyclopedia of life
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Volutidae
Gastropods described in 1758
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus