Porphyria
Original description(s):
"Cylindroideae".
Name-Bearing Type:
Type species by tautonymy: Voluta porphyria Linnaeus, 1758.
General description:
A genus containing the largest extand olivid known: the type species Voluta porphyria Linnaeus, 1758 (see below). The type species is found in the Tropical Eastern Pacific realm, Tropical East Pacific province.
RV 2514. Panama, Archipelago de las Perlas. Scale bar is 1 c,.