Volvulella ovulina (A. Adams, 1850)
Superdomain | Biota | |
Kingdom | Animalia | |
Phylum | Mollusca | |
Class | Gastropoda | |
Subclass | Heterobranchia | |
Infraclass | Euthyneura | |
Subterclass | Tectipleura | |
Order | Cephalaspidea | |
Superfamily | Bulloidea | |
Family | Rhizoridae | |
Genus | Volvulella | |
Species | Volvulella ovulina (A. Adams, 1862) | |
Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 736608). |
- Atys angustatus E. A. Smith, 1872
- Bulla ovulina A. Adams, 1850 (original)
- Rhizorus ovulinus (A. Adams, 1850)
- Volvula acutaeformis Yokoyama, 1922 †
- Volvula minutissima Thiele, 1925
Description
Biology
Etymology
- Ovulina. From Latin “ovulum”, egg, because of the ovoid shell’s shape.
Distribution
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Abundance
Western Mediterranean: | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
Eastern Mediterranean: | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
Atlantic Ocean: | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
More pictures
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Bibliography
Adams, A. 1850. Monograph of the family Bullidae. G.B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus Conchyliorum, vol. 2: 553-608, pl. 119-125.
Adams, A. 1862. On some new species of Cylichnidae, Bullidae and Philinidae from the seas of China and Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
Ballesteros, M., E. Madrenas, and M. Pontes. 2023. OPK - Opistobranquis. (https://opistobranquis.info/).
Cachia, C., and C. Mifsud. 2007. On the occurrence of Atys macandrewii E.A. Smith, 1872 (Gastropoda: Haminoeidae) in the Mediterranean. Iberus 25(1): 43-48.
Higo, S., P. Callomon, and Y. Goto. 2001. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Gastropoda Bivalvia Polyplacophora Scaphopoda Type Figures. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 208 pp.
Long, S. J. 2006. Bibliography of Opisthobranchia 1554-2000. Bayside Books & Press, Tustin, CA, U.S.A. 672p.
McDonald, G. 2009. Bibliographia Nudibranchia. 2nd Online Edition, Annotated. 1072 pp Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz. (http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8115h0wz).
Smith, E. A. 1877. On the Mollusca collected during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., series 4, 20:131-146.
Valdés, Á. 2008. Deep-sea “cephalaspidean” heterobranchs (Gastropoda) from the tropical southwest Pacific. Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle 196:587-792.
van Aartsen, J. J., and J. Goud. 2006. Indo-Pacific migrants into the Mediterranean. 3. Atys angustatus Smith, 1872 (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia). Basteria 70: 29-31.
WoRMS Editorial Board. 2023. World Register of Marine Species. WoRMS. (http://www.marinespecies.org).
Further reading
Cite this article as:
Ballesteros, M., Madrenas, E. & Pontes, M. (2023) "Volvulella ovulina" in OPK-Opistobranquis. Published: 03/05/2015. Accessed: 30/03/2023. Available at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/vnlxd)