Cymbiola rutila, the blood-red volute, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Description The shell attains a length of 74 mm.
(Original description) The shell is ovate-oblong in shape and displays a reddish or flesh-colored ground, thickly covered with confluent, somewhat triangular reticulations of saffron red. The spire is short, with an unarmed suture, and the apex is papillary and slightly granulated or beaded.
The body whorl is furnished with elongated tubercles and is ornamented with two broad, interrupted bands of a deeper and more vivid red. It is further marked with oblique, irregular stripes of the same color: in the tuberculated variety, these stripes extend from the suture to the tubercles, while in the smooth variety they run from the suture to the shoulder of the body whorl.
The columella is provided with four folds, of which the two lowest are the largest.
Habitat Volutes are predators that live in deep waters.
Distribution This marine species occurs off the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Australia (Queensland, Western Australia.Gbif.org: distribution
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Sowerby, G. B., I. (1844). Descriptions of six new species of Voluta. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1844: 149–152 Cox, J. (1873). Descriptions of new species of land and marine shells from Australia and the Solomon and Louisiade Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1873: 564-569 Crosse H. (1867). Diagnoses molluscorum novorum. Journal de Conchyliologie. 17: 444-449 Crosse H. (1880). Description de mollusques inédits, provenant de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de la Nouvelle-Bretagne. Journal de Conchyliologie. 28: 142-149