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Volva (gastropod)
''Volva'' is a genus of sea snails, specifically cowry allies or ovulids, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae.WoRMS (2009). ''Volva'' Roding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225493 on 2010-05-19 Species Species within the genus ''Volva'' include: *'' Volva cumulata'' Iredale, 1931 *'' Volva habei'' Oyama, 1961 *'' Volva kilburni'' Cate, 1975 *'' Volva striata'' (Lamarck, 1810) *'' Volva volva'' (Linnaeus, 1758) ;Synonyms: *''Volva acicularis'' (Lamarck, 1811): synonym of '' Cymbovula acicularis'' (Lamarck, 1811) *''Volva adamsi'' Dunker, 1877: synonym of ''Phenacovolva rosea'' ( A. Adams, 1854) *''Volva birostris'' (Linnaeus, 1767): synonym of ''Phenacovolva birostris'' (Linnaeus, 1767) *''Volva brevirostris'' (Schumacher, 1817): synonym of ''Phenacovolva brevirostris'' (Schumacher, 1817) *''Volva brunneiterma'' Cate, 1969: synonym of ''Pellasimnia brunneiterma'' (Cate, 1969) *''Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastropod Shell
The gastropod shell is part of the body of a Gastropoda, gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc. The shell is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators, mechanical damage, and dehydration, but also serves for muscle attachment and calcium storage. Some gastropods appear shell-less (slugs) but may have a remnant within the mantle, or in some cases the shell is reduced such that the body cannot be retracted within it (semi-slug). Some snails also possess an operculum that seals the opening of the shell, known as the Aperture (mollusc), aperture, which provides further protection. The study of mollusc shells is known as conchology. The biological study of gastropods, and other molluscs in general, is malacology. Shell morphology terms vary by species group. Shell layers The gastropod shell has three major layers secreted by the Mantle (mollusc), mantle. The calcareous central layer, tracum, is typically made of calcium carbonate precipitated into an organic matrix known as c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volva Striata
''Volva striata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae Ovulidae, common names the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries, is a family of small to large predatory or parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and the cowry allies. MolluscaBase eds. ..., the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries. Description Distribution References Ovulidae Gastropods described in 1810 {{Ovulidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pellasimnia Angasi
''Pellasimnia angasi'', common name ''Angas's volva'', is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries. Description The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 38 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Japan and Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma .... References * Schilder, F.A., 1932. ''The living species of Amphiperatinae''. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 20 (1): 46–64 * Cate, C. N. 1973. ''A systematic revision of the recent Cypraeid family Ovulidae''. Veliger 15 (supplement): 1–117 * Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) ''The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocyprae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Brettingham Sowerby III
George Brettingham Sowerby III (16 September 1843 – 31 January 1921) was a British conchologist, publisher, and illustrator. He, too, worked (like his father George Brettingham Sowerby II and his grandfather George Brettingham Sowerby I) on the ''Thesaurus Conchyliorium'', a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated work on mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...s. He was colour blind, and thus his daughter did most of the colouring of his engravings. External links Petit, R. E. (2009). ''George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa''. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218 See also * Sowerby family Conchologists 1843 births 1921 deaths {{Zoologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Dunker
Wilhelm Dunker, full name Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian Dunker (21 February 1809, Eschwege – 13 March 1885, Marburg) was a German geologist, paleontologist and zoologist (specifically a malacologist). Wilhelm Dunker studied mining and metallurgical engineering in Göttingen and worked at first as a trainee with the local mining authority. Soon thereafter he was appointed a teacher of mineralogical sciences at the poly-technical school in Kassel. In 1854 he was appointed professor at the University of Marburg, at which he taught up to his death. Dunker was one of the most important malacologists of his time. He had a very extensive private collection of snails and shells, which he constantly increased by exchange with other collectors (and probably also by purchases). He maintained contacts with his contemporaries Rudolph Amandus Philippi, Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer, Hugh Cuming and Johannes Albers. By exchange he also acquired numerous original specimens and types ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pellasimnia Brunneiterma
''Pellasimnia brunneiterma'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ovulidae Ovulidae, common names the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries, is a family of small to large predatory or parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and the cowry allies. MolluscaBase eds. .... This species appears to be a cryptic species tria References External links Photo Ovulidae Gastropods described in 1969 {{Ovulidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phenacovolva Brevirostris
''Phenacovolva brevirostris'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ... Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries. Description Distribution References Ovulidae Gastropods described in 1817 {{Ovulidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (15 November 1757 in Glückstadt, Holstein – 9 December 1830) was a Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen. Schumacher carried out significant research work in malacology, in other words on molluscs, and described several taxa. Life Early years (1757-1778) He was born to Joachim Christian Schumacher, a sergeant in the infantry of the Duchy of Schleswig, and his wife, Caroline Magdalene in Glückstadt in present-day Germany. In spite of his family's limited means, he received a good upbringing, and was sent to grammar school in Rendsburg. After confirmation became the apprentice of the regiment surgeon, Mehl, a learned and skilled man, who gave his eager student a thorough introduction to both medicine and botany, thereby waking Schumacher's natural gift for science. By 1773, at the age of 16, his keen efforts got him appointed as a military surgeon with his father's battalion in the army sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phenacovolva Birostris
''Phenacovolva'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae. Description The narrow, tubular shells taper at both ends. The shell grows to a length of 6 cm. Distribution These species can usually be found on gorgonians in deep water in the Indo-Pacific. Species Species within the genus ''Phenacovolva'' include: * ''Phenacovolva aurantia'' ( Sowerby, 1889) * ''Phenacovolva barbieri'' Lorenz & Fehse, 2009 * ''Phenacovolva brevirostris'' (Schumacher, 1817) * ''Phenacovolva clenchi'' Cate, 1973 * ''Phenacovolva dancei'' Cate, 1973 * ''Phenacovolva fusula'' Cate & Azuma in Cate, 1973 * † ''Phenacovolva gracilisiana'' Dolin & Lozouet, 2004 * ''Phenacovolva insculpta'' ( Odhner, 1919) * ''Phenacovolva lahainaensis'' (Cate, 1969) * ''Phenacovolva lenoreae'' Cardin & Walls, 1980 * ''Phenacovolva morrisoni'' Lorenz & Fehse, 2009 * ''Phenacovolva nectarea'' Iredale, 1930 * ''Phenacovolva parvita'' Cate & Azuma in Cate, 1973 * ''Phenacovolva patri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Adams (zoologist)
Arthur Adams (1820 in Gosport, Hampshire – 1878) was an English physician and naturalist. Adams was assistant surgeon Royal Navy on board HMS ''Samarang'' during the survey of the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, from 1843 to 1846. He edited the ''Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang'' (1850). Adam White collaborated with him in the descriptions of the Crustacea from the voyage. In 1857, during the Second China War whilst serving as Surgeon on HMS ''Actaeon'', he was present at the storming of Canton and awarded the China War Medal. He retired as Staff Surgeon aboard flagship HMS ''Royal Adelaide'' at Plymouth in 1870. He was a prolific malacologist who described "hundreds of new species, most of them unillustrated and insufficiently diagnosed". He partly worked together with his brother Henry Adams (1813–1877) and together they wrote The genera of recent mollusca: arranged according to their organization' (three volumes, 1858). He also wrote ''Travel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phenacovolva Rosea
''Phenacovolva rosea'', also known as the rosy spindle cowry, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries. It lives and feeds on fan, whip and bush-type gorgonians. Description The rosy spindle cowry is an elongated species with an aperture along the entire length of the shell. The shape is fusiform (cigar-shaped), with slender tapering ends and a slightly broader central section. Adult shells measure between in length and the spire is almost invisible. There are crenelations on the lip of the aperture at the dorsal end, but these decrease in size towards the centre of the shell. The shell is some shade of pale pink, orange or brown, usually with a paler band in the centre. In life, the mantle almost completely covers the shell; it is translucent and a shimmering reddish-orange, or occasionally yellow, sometimes with darker specks or white streaks, and covered with orange, red or tan, plume-like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cymbovula Acicularis
''Cymbovula acicularis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries. Distribution This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Guadeloupe. Description The maximum recorded shell Shell may refer to: Architecture and design * Shell (structure), a thin structure ** Concrete shell, a thin shell of concrete, usually with no interior columns or exterior buttresses ** Thin-shell structure Science Biology * Seashell, a hard ou ... length is 17 mm.Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". '' PLoS ONE'' 5(1): e8776. . Habitat Minimum recorded depth is 0.3 m. Maximum recorded depth is 60 m. References * Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) ''The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae''. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. * Rios, E.C. (1994) ''Seashells of Brazil. 2nd Edition''. Fundaçao Cidade do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
