Voluta sunderlandi is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
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| Shell of Voluta sunderlandi (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Subfamily: | Volutinae |
| Genus: | Voluta |
| Species: | V. sunderlandi
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| Binomial name | |
| Voluta sunderlandi (Petuch, 1987)
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 49 mm.
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Distribution edit
This marine species is endemic to Utila Island and the adjacent coastline, Honduras
References edit
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- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Voluta sunderlandi (Petuch, 1987). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1363615 on 2023-06-29
- Petuch E.J. (1987). New Caribbean molluscan faunas. Charlottesville, Virginia: The Coastal Education and Research Foundation. 154 pp., 29 pls; addendum 2 pp., 1 pl
- Berschauer D.P. (2019). A review of the Voluta polypleura - demarcoi complex. The Festivus. 51(3): 184-197