WoRMS taxon details
Microvoluta australis Angas, 1877
450647 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:450647)
accepted
Species
Microvoluta purpureostoma Hedley & May, 1908 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Voluta minima G. B. Sowerby III, 1887 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
marine
Angas, G. F. (1877). Descriptions of two genera and twenty species of marine shells from New South Wales. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1877): 34-40, pl. 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28510576
page(s): 35, pl. V, fig. 2 [details]
page(s): 35, pl. V, fig. 2 [details]
Type locality contained in Australian part of the Tasman Sea
type locality contained in Australian part of the Tasman Sea [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Microvoluta australis Angas, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=450647 on 2025-04-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Angas, G. F. (1877). Descriptions of two genera and twenty species of marine shells from New South Wales. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1877): 34-40, pl. 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28510576
page(s): 35, pl. V, fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Microvoluta purpureostoma Hedley & May, 1908) Hedley, C.; May, W. L. (1908). Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles east of Cape Pillar, Tasmania. <em>Records of the Australia Museum.</em> 7(2): 108-125; plates 22-25., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8055917
page(s): 120, pl. 23, fig. 20-21 [details]
original description (of Voluta minima G. B. Sowerby III, 1887) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1887). Second supplement to the monograph of the genus <i>Voluta</i>. in G. B. Sowerby II (Ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 5 (44): 297–[307], pls. 513–517. London, privately published. [July]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16085258
page(s): 300 [details]
basis of record Bouchet P.; Kantor Y. (2004). New Caledonia: the major centre of biodiversity for volutomitrid molluscs (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Volutomitridae). <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 1(4): 467-502. [details]
page(s): 35, pl. V, fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Microvoluta purpureostoma Hedley & May, 1908) Hedley, C.; May, W. L. (1908). Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles east of Cape Pillar, Tasmania. <em>Records of the Australia Museum.</em> 7(2): 108-125; plates 22-25., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8055917
page(s): 120, pl. 23, fig. 20-21 [details]
original description (of Voluta minima G. B. Sowerby III, 1887) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1887). Second supplement to the monograph of the genus <i>Voluta</i>. in G. B. Sowerby II (Ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 5 (44): 297–[307], pls. 513–517. London, privately published. [July]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16085258
page(s): 300 [details]
basis of record Bouchet P.; Kantor Y. (2004). New Caledonia: the major centre of biodiversity for volutomitrid molluscs (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Volutomitridae). <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 1(4): 467-502. [details]
Other
additional source
Marrow, M. P. (2025). Four new species of <i>Peculator</i> (Gastropoda: Volutomitridae) from Western Australia. <em>Conchylia.</em> 55(3-4): 25-33.
page(s): pl. 2 fig. 4 [details]
page(s): pl. 2 fig. 4 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
