Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Cephalaspidea > Superfamily Bulloidea > Family Rhizoridae

Volvulella R. B. Newton, 1891

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Volvula*	A. Adams, 1850	junior homonym

Children

Volvulella acuminata (Bruguière, 1792)
Volvulella suavis (Thiele, 1925)

Literature

original description	Newton, R.B. (1891). Systematic list of the F. E. Edwards collection of British Oligocene and Eocene mollusca in the British Museum (Natural History), with references to the type-specimens from similar horizons contained in other collections belonging to the Geological Department of the Museum. London, British Museum, xxviii + 365 pp.
basis of record	Valdés, Á. (2008). Deep-sea "cephalaspidean" heterobranchs (Gastropoda) from the tropical southwest Pacific. In: Héros, V. et al. (eds) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 196: 587-792.
taxonomy source	Harry, H. W. (1967). A review of the living tectibranch snails of the genus Volvulella, with descriptions of a new subgenus and species from Texas. Veliger. 10(2): 133-147.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Volvulella R. B. Newton, 1891. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138433