Voluta musica

Voluta musica
Dorsal (left) and ventral (right) views of a shell of Voluta musica
Voluta musica -variety 'carneolata'
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Voluta
Species: V. musica
Binomial name
Voluta musica
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]

Voluta carneolata Lamarck, 1811
Voluta chorea Röding, 1798
Voluta confusa Röding, 1798
Voluta fulva Lamarck, 1811
Voluta incarnata Röding, 1798
Voluta laevigata Röding, 1798
Voluta lineata Röding, 1798
Voluta maculata Röding, 1798
Voluta musica guineensis Dillwyn, 1817
Voluta musica typica Dall, 1907
Voluta muta Röding, 1798
Voluta nodulosa Lamarck, 1822
Voluta plicata Dillwyn, 1817
Voluta reticulata Röding, 1798
Voluta rosea Röding, 1798
Voluta rugifera Dall, 1907
Voluta sulcata Lamarck, 1811
Voluta thiarella Lamarck, 1811
Voluta tobagoensis Verrill, 1953
Voluta tobagoensis var. damula Dall, 1907
Voluta tobagoensis var. guinaica Lamarck, 1811
Voluta turbata Röding, 1798
Voluta violacea Lamarck, 1811

Voluta musica, common name the music volute, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. It is called "music volute" because the markings on the shell often resemble a musical manuscript.

Shell description

The maximum reported size of the shell is 115 mm.[2]
Specimens from the Eastern Caribbean island of Barbados are pink in color (var. "carneolata")
Deeper-water Barbados examples trapped alive at around 100 m. depth are orange in color.

Distribution

The species occurs on the mainland Caribbean coast in Colombia and Venezuela,
and in the West Indies from the following islands or countries: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada, and Trinidad & Tobago.[2]

Ecology

Voluta musica is usually found alive at depths of 5 m to 28 m.[2]
although at Barbados this species has been found with their dorsums dry as they crawl across exposed South Coast reefs at very low tide
- and have been trapped alive at depths of about 100 m. along the island's West Coast.[3]
It is a predatory carnivorous species, as is the case in other Volutidae.

References

  1. ↑ Voluta musica Linnaeus, 1758. 29 March 2010. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca". Voluta musica Linnaeus, 1758. 2009. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
  3. ↑ Personal marine bio experience

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