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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 are found mainly in tropical seas, though some species also inhabit the waters of the polar circles. Description The large head has the eyes sessile on the sides below the base of the tentacles. The tentacles are far apart, united by a broad veil over the head. The mantle is sometimes greatly developed, covering the sides of the shell. The siphon is recurved, short, with auricles on each side of the base. The foot is very large, partly hiding the shell. There is no operculum. The shell shows distinct plaits on the columella. The apex of the spire is mamillated. The shells have an elongated aperture in their first whorl and an inner lip characterised by a number of deep plaits. The family of Volutidae comprises a suite of large sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amoriinae
Volutidae, common name volutes, are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of predatory sea snails that range in size from 9 mm to over 500 mm. They are marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks. Most of the species have no operculum (gastropod), operculum. Distribution This family of sea snails are found mainly in tropics, tropical seas, though some species also inhabit the waters of the polar circles. Description The large head has the eyes sessile on the sides below the base of the tentacles. The tentacles are far apart, united by a broad veil over the head. The mantle is sometimes greatly developed, covering the sides of the shell. The siphon is recurved, short, with auricles on each side of the base. The foot is very large, partly hiding the shell. There is no operculum. The shell shows distinct plaits on the Columella (gastropod), columella. The Apex (mollusc), apex of the Spire (mollusc), spire is mamillated. The shells have an elongated Aper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voluta Ebraea
''Voluta ebraea'', commonly known as the Hebrew volute, is a species of medium-sized carnivorous sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. It is endemic to the northern and northeastern coasts of Brazil, and inhabits the littoral zone in a variety of substrates, including sandy bottoms, coral reefs, and rocky areas from shallow waters to depths of up to 70 meters. It is known for its robust, cream-colored shell marked with reddish-brown patterns said to resemble Hebrew script. ''V. ebraea'' preys primarily on bivalves such as '' Dallocardia muricata'', as well as other gastropods. It is dioecious and exhibits sexual dimorphism, with females typically having a broader shell than males. Reproduction involves laying flattened, circular egg capsules, usually on the calcareous green alga '' Udotea occidentalis'' or on broken shells, yielding a small number of well-developed juveniles. The ornate shell of ''V. ebraea'' has made it a target of the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cymbiola Imperialis
''Cymbiola imperialis'', the imperial volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk of the genus Cymbiola in the family Volutidae, the volutes. Subspecies * ''C. imperialis robinsona'' Burch, 1954 (Robinson's volute, southern Philippines) Description Shells of ''Cymbiola imperialis'' can reach a size of . These large and glossy shells are elongate and fusiform, light to heavy in weight. The basic color is whitish. The spire is high, with canaliculate sutures, strong red-brown axial ribs and narrow red-brown spiral lines. The aperture is whitish, elongate-ovate, with the outer lip showing many black denticles. The operculum is dark brown, thick and small. Distribution This species can be found in the Philippines, Sulu Sea The Sulu Sea (; Tausug: ''Dagat sin Sūg''; ; ) is a body of water in the southwestern area of the Philippines, separated from the South China Sea in the northwest by Palawan and from the Celebes Sea in the southeast by the Sulu A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notovolutini
''Notovolutini'' is a tribe of sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ... Volutidae. References External links Worms Link Protostome tribes {{Volutidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scaphella Junonia
''Scaphella junonia'', common names the junonia, or Juno's volute, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. This species lives in water from 29 m to 126 m depth in the tropical Western Atlantic. Because of its deepwater habitat, the shell usually only washes up onto beaches after strong storms, or hurricanes. The species is named after the ancient Roman goddess Juno. Distribution ''Scaphella junonia'' is found throughout Florida to Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. * A subspecies, ''Scaphella junonia johnstoneae'', is found off of Alabama and is the state shell of that state. It is named for Kathleen Yerger Johnstone, an amateur conchologist from Alabama who published two books on seashell collecting. * Another subspecies, ''Scaphella junonia butleri'', is found off of the Yucatan. Shell description The largest recorded shell of ''Scaphella junonia'' is 154 mm in length. The shell is cream in color with about 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melo Amphora
''Melo amphora'', common name the Diadem volute, is a very large sea snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusc in the family (biology), family Volutidae, the volutes. Etymology The specific name ''amphora'' is the Latin word for vase, derived from the Greek language, Greek ' (αμφορεύς). Distribution This species distribution is restricted to the tropical southwest Pacific, from southern Indonesia and New Guinea to the northern half of Australia.Poutiers, J. M. (1998). Gastropods in: FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes: The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 1. Seaweeds, corals, bivalves and gastropods. Rome, FAO, 1998. page 597. Habitat This large sea snail is known to live in littoral and shallow sublittoral zones. It usually dwells in muddy bottoms at a maximum depth of nearly 10 m. Shell description The maximum shell length of this species is up to 500 mm, usually around 300 mm. This large shell has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 143.1 to 66 mya (unit), million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era (geology), Era, as well as the longest. At around 77.1 million years, it is the ninth and longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic. The name is derived from the Latin , 'chalk', which is abundant in the latter half of the period. It is usually abbreviated K, for its German translation . The Cretaceous was a period with a relatively warm climate, resulting in high Sea level#Local and eustatic, eustatic sea levels that created numerous shallow Inland sea (geology), inland seas. These oceans and seas were populated with now-extinct marine reptiles, ammonites, and rudists, while dinosaurs continued to dominate on land. The world was largely ice-free, although there is some evidence of brief periods of glaciation during the cooler first half, and forests extended to the poles. Many of the dominant taxonomic gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Augustus Pilsbry
Henry Augustus Pilsbry (7 December 1862 – 26 October 1957) was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a century. For much of his career, his authority with respect to the classification of certain substantial groups of organisms was unchallenged: barnacles, chitons, North American terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial mollusks, and others. Biography Pilsbry (frequently misspelled ''Pilsbury'') spent his childhood and youth in Iowa. He was called "Harry" Pilsbry then, and developed an early fascination with the limited variety of mollusks he was able to find. He attended the University of Iowa, and received the Bachelor of Science degree there in 1882, but did not immediately find employment in his field of interest. Instead, Henry Pilsbry worked for publishing firms and newspapers for the next several years, but devoted most of his spare time to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in Island groups of the Philippines, three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. With a population of over 110 million, it is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, twelfth-most-populous country. The Philippines is bounded by the South China Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Celebes Sea to the south. It shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Palau to the east and southeast, Indonesia to the south, Malaysia to the southwest, Vietnam to the west, and China to the northwest. It has Ethnic groups in the Philippines, diverse ethnicities and Culture o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Language
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
