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Volegalea cochlidium

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| authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)

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  • Cantharus tribuloides Noodt, 1819
  • Hemifusus pugilinus (Born, 1778)
  • Murex cochlidium Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym)
  • Murex pugilinus Born, 1778
  • Murex vespertilio Gmelin, 1791
  • Pugilina cochlidium (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Pugilina pugilina (Born, 1778)
  • Pyrula bucephala Lamarck, 1822
  • Pyrula cochlidium (Linnaeus, 1758) (previous combination)
  • Pyrula cochlidium var. coronata Kobelt, 1874
  • Pyrula fulva Deshayes, 1832
  • Semifusus cochlidium (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Semifusus cochlidium diademata C. Bayer, 1952
  • Volegalea wardiana Iredale, 1938

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Volegalea cochlidium, common name the spiral melongena, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Melongenidae, the crown conches and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2015). Volegalea cochlidium (Linnaeus, 1758). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=754350 on 2015-12-02

Description

The size of the adult shell varies between 60 mm and 150 mm.

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Distribution

This species occurs in the Eastern Indian Ocean and also off Southern India, in the Pacific Ocean around the Philippines, Vietnam and off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

References

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  • Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian Shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs.
  • Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp.
  • Landau B. & Vermeij G.J. (2013) A new species of Pugilina (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda, Melongeninae) from the Lower Miocene Cantaure Formation of Venezuela. Basteria 77(4-6): 89–95.

External links

  • [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systemae naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differetiis, synonymis, locis.v. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii 824 pp. ]
  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433 Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième. Paris: published by the Author, 711 pp]
  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890 Born, I. Von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere]
  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae]
  • [https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10469043_00443.html Deshayes, G. P. (1832-1833). Mollusques. In: Bélanger, C. (ed.) Voyage aux Indes-Orientales, par le nord de l'Europe, les provinces du Caucase, la Géorgie, l'Arménie et la Perse, suivi de détails topographiques, statistiques et autres sur le Pégou, les îles de Java, de Maurice et de Bourbon, sur le Cap-de-Bonne-Espérance et Sainte-Hélène, pendant les années 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829. Volume 2, Zoologie. pp. 403-440, 3 pls]
  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12117013 Küster, H. C. & Kobelt, W. (1844-1880). Die Gattungen Pyrula und Fusus nebst Ficula, Bulbus, Tudicla, Busycon, Neptunea und Euthria. Systematisches Conhylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz, ed.2, 3(3b): 1-247, pls 1-68, 14a. Published in parts: pls 16, 19]
  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38926786 Iredale, T. 1938. A new name for an old shell. The Australian Zoologist 9: 172]
  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59289439 Noodt, J. (1819). Museum Boltenianum: Verzeichnis der von dem gestorbenen J. F. Bolten... hinterlassenen vortrefflichen Sammlung Conchylien, Mineralien und Kunstsachen die am 26. April d.J., Morgens um 10 Uhr öffentlich verkauft werden sollen durch den Makler J. Noodt. Conrad Müller, Hamburg, pp. vi + 156, 4 pls]
  • {{Gastropods.com|key=2|id=3272|title=Pugilina cochlidium|access-date=2 April 2011}}

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Category:Gastropods described in 1758

Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus

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