Cymbiola palawanica

Cymbiola palawanica
Shell of Cymbiola palawanica (specimen at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Cymbiola
Species:	C. palawanica
Binomial name
Cymbiola palawanica Douté & Bail, 2000
Synonyms
Cymbiola (Cymbiola) palawanicaDouté & Bail, 2000 alternative representation

Cymbiola palawanica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 90 mm. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

References

1. Cymbiola palawanica Douté & Bail, 2000 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Natural History Museum Rotterdam: description of the length

• Douté, H. & Bail, P., 2000. Revision of the "Cymbiola aulica" complex. La Conchiglia 293: 27-40
• Poppe, G. T.; Tagaro, S. P.; Bail, P. (2011). Notes on the genus Cymbiola in the Philippines, with the redefinition of Cymbiola cathcartiae Reeve, 1856 and the description of Cymbiola laminusa n. sp. Visaya. 3 (4): 76-87.

External links

• MNHN, Paris: holotype