Cymbiola rutila
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| genus = Cymbiola
| species = rutila
| authority = (Broderip, 1826)
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- Cymbiola (Cymbiola) rutila (Broderip, 1826)· accepted, alternate representation
- Voluta macgillivrayi Cox, 1873
- Voluta norrisii Gray, 1838
- Voluta piperita G. B. Sowerby I, 1844
- Voluta rückeri Crosse, 1867
- Voluta rückeri var. ceraunia Crosse, 1880
- Voluta rueckeri Crosse, 1867
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Cymbiola rutila, the blood-red volute, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cymbiola rutila (Broderip, 1826). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=714721 on 2020-10-04
Description
The shell attains a length of 74 mm.
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Habitat
Volutes are predators that live in deep waters,
where they stalk and kill other molluscs.
Volutes do not have a free-swimming larval stage.
Their large egg capsules contain enough food
to allow the embryos to develop over several months.
What emerges from these capsules are tiny but fully formed shells.
Volutes tend to spend their life in colonies, and have small home ranges.{{cite web |url=http://www.seashellworld.com/volute-shells.html |title=Volute Shells |access-date=2013-07-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708042714/http://www.seashellworld.com/volute-shells.html |archive-date=2013-07-08 |url-status=dead }}
Distribution
This marine species occurs off New Britain and Western Australia.
References
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External links
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- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862443 Sowerby, G. B., I. (1844). Descriptions of six new species of Voluta. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1844: 149–152]
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28504833 Cox, J. (1873). Descriptions of new species of land and marine shells from Australia and the Solomon and Louisiade Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1873: 564-569]
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15382376 Crosse H. (1867). Diagnoses molluscorum novorum. Journal de Conchyliologie. 17: 444-449]
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15919247 Crosse H. (1880). Description de mollusques inédits, provenant de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de la Nouvelle-Bretagne. Journal de Conchyliologie. 28: 142-149]
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