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.
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.Claudio Galli: WMSDB - Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 70 mm and 146 mm. 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.George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology IV, p. 85; 1884 (described as Voluta rupestris)T Shikama System and Evolution of Japanese Fulgorarid Gastropoda
Life cycle Embryos develop into free-swimming planktonic marine larvae (trochophore) 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
External links Gmelin J.F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig. pp. 3021-3910.] Schumacher C.F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls Encyclopedia of life Biolib