Provocator mirabilis — The Life Data

Animalia/Mollusca/Gastropoda/Neogastropoda/Volutidae/Provocator

At a glance

Occurrence records396

Data sources5

Biological traits2

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources5 archives

Databases and archives Provocator mirabilis's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility222 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System174 records↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

On this page3 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources2 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS396 records

01Narrative

The golden volute, Iredalina mirabilis, is a species of rare, large, deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes. This is the only species in the genus; in other words, Iredalina is a monotypic genus.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonebenthic

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type396 records

Wild obs. + sensor204

Museum / vouchered192

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO836 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit5

200–1000 m twilight131

1–4 km midnight17

>4 km abyssal0

median 532.1 m · max 1 085 m · 153 records with depth

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy98% within 1 km

≤100 m 194≤1 km 2≤10 km 1>10 km 3

200 georeferenced · 4 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor204

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy33% within 1 km

≤100 m 7≤1 km 13≤10 km 24>10 km 16

60 georeferenced · 132 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence192

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions6 of 10 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Earth Sciences New Zealandlocation not on record	59
Auckland, NZ	36
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record	8
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	4
Philadelphia, US	3
Brussels, BE	3
Denver, US	2
Salzburg, AT	1
Cambridge, US	1
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record	1

10 institutions · 118 of 192 vouchered records shown