{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Speciesbox | image = Voluta musica 000.JPG | image_caption = Dorsal (left) and ventral (right) views of a shell of ''Voluta musica'' thumb|left|''Voluta musica'' -variety 'carneolata' | taxon = Voluta musica | authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | synonyms = }}
'''''Voluta musica''''', common name the '''music volute''', is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|382406|''Voluta musica'' Linnaeus, 1758|29 March 2010}}</ref>
==Synonyms== {{div col}} * ''Voluta caquetio'' <small>Berschauer & Ros, 2025</small> * ''Voluta carneolata'' <small>Lamarck, 1811</small> * ''Voluta chorea'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> * ''Voluta confusa'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> * ''Voluta fulva'' <small>Lamarck, 1811</small> * ''Voluta incarnata'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> * ''Voluta laevigata'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> * ''Voluta lineata'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> * ''Voluta maculata'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> * ''Voluta musica guineensis'' <small>Dillwyn, 1817</small> * ''Voluta musica typica'' <small>Dall, 1907</small> * ''Voluta muta'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> * ''Voluta nodulosa'' <small>Lamarck, 1822</small> * ''Voluta plicata'' <small>Dillwyn, 1817</small> * ''Voluta reticulata'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> * ''Voluta rosea'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> * ''Voluta rugifera'' <small>Dall, 1907</small> * ''Voluta sulcata'' <small>Lamarck, 1811</small> * ''Voluta thiarella'' <small>Lamarck, 1811</small> * ''Voluta tobagoensis'' <small>Verrill, 1953</small> * ''Voluta tobagoensis'' var. damula <small>Dall, 1907</small> * ''Voluta tobagoensis'' var. guinaica <small>Lamarck, 1811</small> * ''Voluta turbata'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> * ''Voluta violacea'' <small>Lamarck, 1811</small> {{div col end}}
==Subspecies== * ''Voluta musica guineensis'' Dillwyn, 1817 * ''Voluta musica typica'' Dall, 1907
==Distribution== The species occurs on the mainland Caribbean coast in Colombia and Venezuela, and in the West Indies from the following islands or countries: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago.<ref name="Malacolog"/><ref name=BB/><ref name=AA/>
==Shell description== [[File: Volutidae - Voluta musica.JPG|thumb|240px|left|A shell of ''Voluta musica'']] The maximum reported size of the shell is 115 mm.<ref name="Malacolog">{{cite web|url=http://www.malacolog.org/search.php?nameid=5656|website=Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca|year=2009|title=Voluta musica Linnaeus, 1758|accessdate=30 March 2010|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234804/http://www.malacolog.org/search.php?nameid=5656|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=AA>{{Gastropods.com|key=2|id=262|title=''Voluta musica''|access-date=12 January 2019}}</ref>
These medium-sized, very solid, axially ribbed shells are characterized by delicate blackish to reddish brown markings on a creamy background color, with a characteristic series of lines resembling a musical manuscript (hence the common name "music volute").<ref name=BB>M. Salomé Rangel, Alejandro Tagliafico, Jeremy Mendoza, Luis Freites, José Silva, Abel Vásquez, Natividad García (2011)[http://www.panamjas.org/pdf_artigos/PANAMJAS_6(2)_121-137.pdf Population, reproductive and ecological aspects of the music volute Voluta musica (Caenogastropoda: Volutidae) in northeastern Venezuela] Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences 6 (2), S. 121-137.</ref>
Specimens from the Eastern Caribbean island of Barbados are pink in color (var. "carneolata"). Deeper-water Barbados examples trapped alive at around 100 m. depth are orange in color.
==Ecology== ''Voluta musica'' is usually found alive in muddy and sandy substrate at depths of 5 m to 28 m.,<ref name="Malacolog"/> although at Barbados this species has been found with their dorsums dry as they crawl across exposed South Coast reefs at very low tide and have been trapped alive at depths of about 100 m. along the island's West Coast.<ref>Personal marine bio experience</ref>
It is a predatory carnivorous species, as is the case in other Volutidae. It feeds on invertebrates, bivalves, other gastropods and on decayed material.<ref name=BB/>
==Life cycle== Embryos develop into free-swimming planktonic marine larvae (trochophore) and later into juvenile veligers.<ref>[http://www.sealifebase.org/summary/Voluta-musica.html Sealife Base]</ref>
==Bibliography== * Abbott, Robert Tucker (1974) - American Seashells: The Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America. 2nd ed. - Van Nostrand Reinhold Company New York * Dall, W. H. 1907. A review of the American Volutidae Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 48 341–373. * Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae * Verrill, A. H. 1950. Voluta musica, its forms, distribution and operculum Conchological Club of Southern California, Minutes 102 3–7.
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{Commons category|Voluta musica}} * [https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=656350 ITIS] * [http://www.eol.org/pages/407177/overview Encyclopedia of life]
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musica Category:Gastropods described in 1758 Category:Animal taxa named by Carl Linnaeus