Harpovoluta charcoti

Harpovoluta charcoti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Harpovoluta charcoti
Original image of a shell of Harpovoluta charcoti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Cymbiinae
Genus:	Harpovoluta
Species:	H. charcoti
Binomial name
Harpovoluta charcoti (Lamy, 1910)
Synonyms[1]
Buccinum charcoti Lamy, 1910 (original combination) Harpovoluta vanhoeffeni Thiele, 1912 Harpovoluta vanhoeffeni var. striatula Thiele, 1912

Description

The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 75 mm.

Distribution

Harpovoluta charcoti is widely found in and around Antarctica/sub-Antarctic or Southern Ocean.[2][3]

References

1. Harpovoluta charcoti (Lamy, 1910). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
2. Australian Antarctic Data Center (2007). "Harpovoluta charcoti".
3. Scientia Marina (2008). "The gastropod-symbiotic sea anemone genus".

• Lamy, E. 1910. Mission dans l'Antarctique dirigé par M. le Dr. Charcot (1908–1910): Collections recueillies par M. le Dr. Jacques Liouville: Gastropodes prosobranches et scaphopodes. Bulletin Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 16: 318–324
• Thiele, Johannes. "Die antarktischen schnecken und muscheln." Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition (1901–1903) 13 (1912): 183–286
• Dell, R.K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27: 1–311
• Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.

External links

• "Harpovoluta charcoti". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Harpovoluta charcoti (Lamy, 1910). Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2012) The SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS).