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Scaphella junonia

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Scaphella junonia
A shell of Scaphella junonia trawled by a shrimp boat off of the SW coast of Florida
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S. junonia
Binomial name
Scaphella junonia
(Lamarck, 1804)
Synonyms[1]
  • Voluta junonia Lamarck, 1804
  • Aurinia junonia Lamarck, 1804
  • Scapha junonia Lamarck, 1804
  • Maculopeplum junonia Lamarck, 1804
  • Scaphella butleri Clench, 1953
  • Scaphella johnstoneae Clench, 1953
  • Scaphella capelettii Petuch, 1994

Scaphella junonia, common names the junonia, or Juno's volute,[2] is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

This species lives in water from 29 m to 126 m depth in the tropical Western Atlantic.[1] Because of its deepwater habitat, the shell usually only washes up onto beaches after strong storms, or hurricanes.

The species is named after the ancient Roman goddess Juno.

Distribution

Scaphella junonia is found throughout Florida to Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.[1][3]

Shell description

The largest recorded shell of Scaphella junonia is 154 mm in length.[6] The shell is cream in color with about 12 spiral rows of somewhat squarish brown dots. The large protoconch is tan. The aperture of the shell is almost 3/4 of the length of the shell.

Human relevance

An exhibit at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel, Florida shows a growth series of this species.

The shell was historically greatly prized for its beauty and apparent rarity. It is however commonly taken (accidentally as bycatch) from deeper water during commercial trawling by shrimp fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico. This source provides plenty of specimens for the shell trade, and so the price of a specimen shell is relatively low. However, the shell is still very hard to find naturally cast up on beaches, so people who find a junonia while shelling on Sanibel Island, Florida, often get their picture in the local newspapers.

References

Citations
  1. ^ a b c d e Rosenberg, G. (2009). "Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca". Scaphella junonia (Lamarck, 1804). Retrieved 7 April 2010.
  2. ^ Helen S. O'Brien. (1953). Shell Album. Fort Myers, Florida: O'Brien Color Studio. p. 10.
  3. ^ Scaphella junonia (Lamarck, 1804). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 April 2010.
  4. ^ "Alabama Shell". Official Symbols and Emblems of Alabama. Alabama Department of Archives and History. 6 February 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  5. ^ Bruer, Frank (11 January 1990). "Mobile senator makes push to get an official state shell". Birmingham Post-Herald. p. 1. Retrieved 7 June 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "World's Largest Junonia". 11 August 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
Bibliography
  • Conchologists of America, Peter Dance article on this species
  • Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 99
  • Bail, P & Poppe, G. T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim-Conchbook, 30 pp, 5 pl.
  • Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

Further reading

  • S. Peter Dance (1969). Rare Shells. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
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