Cymbiola mariaemma | |
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Scientific classification | |
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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Maria Emma Gray, was an English conchologist, algologist and scientific illustrator.