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Seven species belonging to the gastropod family Volutidae are reported for the first time from Kutch, Gujarat, India. They arePrestrombusaff.Prestrombus rockeiCox, 1931,Indovoluta humberti(d'Archiac and Haime, 1854),Indovoluta multidentata(d'Archiac and Haime, 1854),Involuta daviesiCox, 1931,Involuta coxinew species,Athleta(Volutocorbis)harnaiensisCox, 1931, andLyriacf.Lyria punjabensisEames, 1952. Indovolutinae new subfamily, constituted of the Paleogene generaPrestrombusDouvillé, 1929,IndovolutaEames, 1956,InvolutaCox, 1931, andLyrischapaAldrich, 1911, and the Cretaceous genusGosaviaStoliczka, 1865, is proposed. These forms have elaborate development of columellar plaits. All of these genera evolved in the western part of the Indian subcontinent. They, exceptLyrischapa, also largely remained restricted to this area.Lyrischapaflourished in the Americas after possibly migrating through the southern margin of the relict Tethys Ocean and crossing the Atlantic Ocean. It is argued that the geographic and temporal restriction of this new subfamily was due to lecithotrophic larval development.UUID:http://zoobank.org/14bc056f-1d2e-4674-b624-9eb8e856a1f0

Subgenus Lyria stricto sensu. Type species: Lyria pattersonia (Perry, 1821), Published as part of Bail, Patrice & Chino, Mitsuo, 2015, A new species of Lyria (Gastropoda: Volutidae) from Southern Japan, pp. 142-146 in Zootaxa 3926 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/238282

Lyria (Lyria) ogasawarana sp. nov. (Figure 1, 2 A���B, K) Lyria sp. Fukuda, 1994. Ogasawara Research No. 20, Part 2: 20, pl. 22, fig. 537., Published as part of Bail, Patrice & Chino, Mitsuo, 2015, A new species of Lyria (Gastropoda: Volutidae) from Southern Japan, pp. 142-146 in Zootaxa 3926 (1) on page 143, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/238282

A new endemic species of Volutidae, Lyria ( Lyria ) ogasawarana sp. nov. is described from Chichijima Island, Ogasawara Islands, Japan. This new species is similar to the other Pacific Lyria : L. ( Lyria ) cassidula cassidula (Reeve, 1849), L. ( Lyria ) deliciosa (Montrousier, 1859), L. (Lyria) pattersonia (Perry, 1811) and L. ( Lyria ) insignata (Iredale, 1940) .