Scaphella junonia

This article is about the snail. For the Roman colony, see Colonia Junonia. For the genus of butterfly, see Junonia.

Scaphella junonia
A shell of Scaphella junonia trawled by a shrimp boat off of the SW coast of Florida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Scaphella
Species:
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.

  1. ^ a b 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.