OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database

Data as of: 2006-05-17

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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Volutidae 

Voluta ducalis Lamarck, 1811

Type of listing: Entry in a Synonymy


Senior name:

Melo umbilicatus (Broderip, 1826)

Types

Primary Type: None Secondary Type: P [ species dubia] Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet 1811. p.57, 58
holotype l'Océan Indien (in error).

References

 Chemnitz, J.H. 1788. pl. 148, figs. 1385-1387  Illustration of type specimen
 Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. p.75 [ Type figures based (with a question mark) on Chemnitz, 1788 which represent Voluta cymbiola Gmelin, 1791. Lamarck's holotype was a small specimen, 70 mm in length, too juvenile for positive identification. ]  Type SpecAv

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Visceroconcha
          Gastropoda
            Orthogastropoda
              Caenogastropoda
                Sorbeoconcha
                  Hypsogastropoda
                    Neogastropoda
                      Volutoidea
                        Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815
                          Cymbiolinae Bondarev, 1995
                            Melo Broderip in Sowerby, 1826
                              Melo umbilicatus (Broderip, 1826)
                                Voluta ducalis Lamarck, 1811

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=12420) created by on unknown date. Record not subsequently updated.