Cymbiola flavicans

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Cymbiola flavicans
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Apertural view of a shell of Cymbiola flavicans (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Cymbiola
Species:
C. flavicans
Binomial name
Cymbiola flavicans
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms [1]
  • Aulica kellneriIredale, 1957
  • Aulica quaesitaIredale, 1956
  • Cymbiola (Cymbiola) flavicans(Gmelin, 1791) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Voluta lugubrisSwainson, 1823
  • Voluta modestaWood, 1828
  • Voluta signiferBroderip, 1848
  • Voluta tissotianaCrosse, 1867
  • Voluta volvaceaLamarck, 1811

Cymbiola flavicans, common name the yellow volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. [1]

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Description

The size of the shell varies between 60 mm and 100 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland).

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