Cymbiola nivosa

Cymbiola nivosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Cymbiola
Species:	C. nivosa
Binomial name
Cymbiola nivosa (Lamarck, 1804)
Synonyms [1]
Cymbiola (Aulicina) nivosa(Lamarck, 1804) Cymbiola (Cymbiola) nivosa(Lamarck, 1804)· accepted, alternate representation Voluta nivosaLamarck, 1804 (original combination) Voluta norrisiiG.B. Sowerby I, 1845

Cymbiola nivosa, common name the blotched snowflake volute, ' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. ^[1]

Subspecies

• Cymbiola nivosa nivosa(Lamarck, 1804)
• Cymbiola nivosa oblita(E. A. Smith, 1909): synonym of Cymbiola oblita (E. A. Smith, 1909) (superseded rank)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 65 mm and 70 mm.

(Described as Voluta norrisii) The shell is ovate and somewhat oblong in form, with a ventricose and coronated appearance. It is greyish brown in color, sprinkled with small snow-white and brown specks, and encircled by two transverse, interrupted brown bands, here and there marked with broken longitudinal lines. The spire is short and terminates in a papillary, granose apex. It consists of six whorls, the last two of which are crowned with short, sharp spines. The aperture is large and oblong, brown within, and the columella bears four folds, of which the two anterior folds are especially prominent. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Western Australia. ^[3]

References

1. Cymbiola nivosa (Lamarck, 1804) . 25 April 2010. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Sowerby, G.B. I ((1844)). "Descriptions of six new species of Voluta". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1844: 150. Retrieved 23 February 2026.{{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. Australian Faunal Directory: distribution

• Bail, P. & Limpus, A. 1997. The genus Cymbiola Swainson, 1831 in Western Australia. World Shells 20: 4-11
• Bail, P. & Limpus, A. 2014. A new species of Cymbiola (Gastropoda: Volutidae) from Western Australia. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie. Supplément 2(22-27)
• McMichael, D.F. 1960. Shells of the Australian sea-shore. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 127 pp., 287 figs.
• Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1-375.
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.

External links

• Lamarck [J.B.P.A. de]. (1804). Mémoire sur deux espèces nouvelles de volutes des mers de la Nouvelle-Hollande. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. 5: 154–160, pl. 12