MolluscaBase taxon details
Volutharpa ampullacea (Middendorff, 1848)
491383 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:491383)
accepted
Species
Buccinum (Volutharpa) ampullaceum (Middendorff, 1848) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Buccinum ampullaceum (Middendorff, 1848) · unaccepted
Bullia ampullacea Middendorff, 1848 · unaccepted (original combination)
Tritonium (Volutharpa) ampullacea (Middendorff, 1848) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Volutharpa deshayesiana P. Fischer, 1856 · unaccepted
- Subspecies Volutharpa ampullacea lymnaeformis T. Habe & Ki. Ito, 1980 accepted as Buccinum nipponkaiense lymnaeforme (Habe & Ki. Ito, 1980) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subspecies Volutharpa ampullacea nipponkaiensis T. Habe & Ki. Ito, 1980 accepted as Buccinum nipponkaiense (T. Habe & Ki. Ito, 1980) accepted as Volutharpa nipponkaiensis nipponkaiensis T. Habe & Ki. Ito, 1980 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subspecies Volutharpa ampullacea perryi (J. C. Jay, 1857) accepted as Volutharpa perryi (J. C. Jay, 1857) (unaccepted > superseded rank)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Bullia ampullacea Middendorff, 1848) Middendorff A.T. von. (1848). Vorläufige Anzeige einiger neuen Konchylien aus den Geschlechtern: Littorina, Tritonium, Bullia, Natica und Margarita. <em>Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathématique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg.</em> 7(16): 241-246., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45977377
page(s): 245 [details]
page(s): 245 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Volutharpa ampullacea (Middendorff, 1848). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=491383 on 2025-09-10
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original description
(of Bullia ampullacea Middendorff, 1848) Middendorff A.T. von. (1848). Vorläufige Anzeige einiger neuen Konchylien aus den Geschlechtern: Littorina, Tritonium, Bullia, Natica und Margarita. <em>Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathématique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg.</em> 7(16): 241-246., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45977377
page(s): 245 [details]
original description (of Volutharpa deshayesiana P. Fischer, 1856) Fischer, P. (1856). Description de coquilles nouvelles. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 5(1): 84-87., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15862143
page(s): 86, pl. 3 figs 8-9 [details]
basis of record Yamazaki, T.; Sonoda, T.; Nobetsu, T.; Goshima, S. (2018). Contribution to the knowledge of the taxonomy of the Japanese species of <i>Volutharpa</i> (Gastropoda: Buccinidae). <em>Venus.</em> 76(1-4): 1-18.
page(s): 11, figs 2A, 4A, 5A-B, 6A, 7A, 9A [details] Available for editors
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additional source Golikov, A. N.; Kussakin, O. G. (1978). Shell-bearing gastropods of the intertidal zone of the seas of the USSR. [Голиков А.Н., Кусакин О.Г. 1978. Раковинные брюхоногие моллюски литорали морей СССР. Определители по фауне СССР, издаваемые Зоологическим институтом АН СССР, 116: 292 с.]. <em>Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavayemye Zoologicheskim Institutom AN SSSR.</em> 116: 1-292 [In Russian]., available online at http://ashipunov.info/shipunov/school/books/golikov1978_rakov_brjukh_litorali_morei_sssr.djvu
page(s): 187, fig. 131 [details]
additional source Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. <i> National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs</i> 39: 225-383. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 245 [details]
original description (of Volutharpa deshayesiana P. Fischer, 1856) Fischer, P. (1856). Description de coquilles nouvelles. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 5(1): 84-87., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15862143
page(s): 86, pl. 3 figs 8-9 [details]
basis of record Yamazaki, T.; Sonoda, T.; Nobetsu, T.; Goshima, S. (2018). Contribution to the knowledge of the taxonomy of the Japanese species of <i>Volutharpa</i> (Gastropoda: Buccinidae). <em>Venus.</em> 76(1-4): 1-18.
page(s): 11, figs 2A, 4A, 5A-B, 6A, 7A, 9A [details] Available for editors

additional source Golikov, A. N.; Kussakin, O. G. (1978). Shell-bearing gastropods of the intertidal zone of the seas of the USSR. [Голиков А.Н., Кусакин О.Г. 1978. Раковинные брюхоногие моллюски литорали морей СССР. Определители по фауне СССР, издаваемые Зоологическим институтом АН СССР, 116: 292 с.]. <em>Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavayemye Zoologicheskim Institutom AN SSSR.</em> 116: 1-292 [In Russian]., available online at http://ashipunov.info/shipunov/school/books/golikov1978_rakov_brjukh_litorali_morei_sssr.djvu
page(s): 187, fig. 131 [details]
additional source Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. <i> National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs</i> 39: 225-383. [details] Available for editors





Syntype (of Bullia ampullacea Middendorff, 1848) ZI 25500/29, geounit Sea of Okhotsk [details]