Fulgoraria rupestris

Fulgoraria (Fulgoraria) rupestris, common name the Asian flame volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Fulgoraria rupestris
Five views of a shell of Fulgoraria rupestris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Volutidae
Subfamily:
Fulgorariinae
Genus:
Fulgoraria
Subgenus:
Fulgoraria
Species:
F. rupestris
Binomial name
Fulgoraria rupestris
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
  • Fulgoraria (Fulgoraria) rupestris (Gmelin, 1791)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Fulgoraria (Fulgoraria) rupestris aurantia (Shikama & Kosuge, 1970)
  • Fulgoraria chinensis Schumacher, 1817
  • Fulgoraria fulgura Martini & Adams, 1853
  • Voluta capitata Perry, 1811
  • Voluta fulminata Lamarck, 1811
  • Voluta rupestris Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)

Subspecies
  • Fulgoraria (Fulgoraria) rupestris politohumerosa Shikama, 1968
  • Fulgoraria (Fulgoraria) rupestris rupestris (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Fulgoraria (Fulgoraria) rupestris thachi Bail & Chino, 2010
  • The forma Fulgoraria (Fulgoraria) rupestris f. aurantia Shikama & Kosuge, 1970 is a synonym of Fulgoraria (Fulgoraria) rupestris rupestris (Gmelin, 1791)

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the demersal zone off Japan, Taiwan, China and Vietnam.[1][2][3]

Description
A shell of Fulgoraria rupestris

The size of an adult shell varies between 70 mm and 146 mm.[2] The oblong-fusiform shell has a yellowish flesh-color, with zigzagged longitudinal chestnut lines. The spire is moderately elongated, terminating in a papillary summit with the apex lateral, instead of central and vertical as usual in spiral shells. The surface is plicate longitudinally, crossed by engraved revolving lines. There are six or seven columellar plaits. The outer lip is thickened within, its margin slightly crenulate. The interior of the aperture has also a flesh-color.[4][5]

Lyfe cycle

Embryos develop into free-swimming planktonic marine larvae (trocophore) and later into juvenile veligers.

Bibliography
  • Bail, P & Poppe, G. T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim-Conchbook, 30 pp, 5 pl. (updated October 2008 for WoRMS)
  • Bail P. & Chino M. (2010) The family Volutidae. The endemic Far East Asian subfamily Fulgorariinae Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954: A revision of the Recent species. A conchological iconography (G.T. Poppe & K. Groh, eds). Hackenheim: Conchbooks.
  • Hsi-Jen Tao - Shells of Taiwan Illustrated in Colour
  • Harald Douté, M. A. Fontana Angioy - Volutes, The Doute collection
  • Ngoc-Thach Nguyên - Shells of Vietnam
  • Okutani, T. (ed.), Marine Mollusks in Japan. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 519-521 (in Japanese)

References
  1. Fulgoraria rupestris (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. "Fulgoraria (Fulgoraria) rupestris rupestris". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  3. Claudio Galli: WMSDB - Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base
  4. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology IV, p. 85; 1884 (described as Voluta rupestris)
  5. T Shikama System and Evolution of Japanese Fulgorarid Gastropoda
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