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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Volutidae 

Voluta cithara Lightfoot, 1786

Type of listing: Entry in a Synonymy


Senior name:

Melo amphora (Lightfoot, 1786)

Types

Primary Type: holotype Secondary Type: paratype [not Voluta cithara Lamarck, 1803 = Athleta ( Neoathleta) citharoedus Holten, 1802: a fossil species in Volutidae.] Lightfoot, J. 1786. p.96, no. 2122
holotype Japan (in error)

References

 Seba, A. 1758. pl. 65, figs 1-2 Illustration of type specimen

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Visceroconcha
          Gastropoda
            Orthogastropoda
              Caenogastropoda
                Sorbeoconcha
                  Hypsogastropoda
                    Neogastropoda
                      Volutoidea
                        Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815
                          Cymbiolinae Bondarev, 1995
                            Melo Broderip in Sowerby, 1826
                              Melo amphora (Lightfoot, 1786)
                                Voluta cithara Lightfoot, 1786

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=12411) created by on unknown date. Record not subsequently updated.