Cymbiola mariaemma

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Cymbiola mariaemma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Cymbiola
Species:
C. mariaemma
Binomial name
Cymbiola mariaemma
Gray, 1858
Synonyms [1]

Voluta grayaeCrosse, 1871

Cymbiola mariaemma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. [1] It was first described by John Edward Gray in 1858 under the name Scapha maria-emma and was named in honor of his wife, Maria Emma Gray, a fellow conchologist and algologist. [2]

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Description

Shell size 140 mm.

Distribution

Indo-Pacific region: Singapore; Sulawesi, Indonesia.

References

  1. 1 2 Cymbiola mariaemma Gray, 1858 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
  2. ↑ Gray, John Edward (1859). "Description of Scapha maria-emma, a New Species of Volute". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 27: 230–231 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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