Cymbium | |
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shell of Cymbium glans | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Volutoidea |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: | Cymbium Röding, 1798 [1] |
Type species | |
Cymbium jacobinumRöding, 1798 | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Cymbium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae. [2]
The oval-oblong shell is ventricose. The spire is short, the protoconch is large, globular, deciduous, when present forming an obtuse papillary apex. The few whorls form a flat edge round the protoconch. The aperture is oblong and wide The columella shows several oblique plaits. The outer lip is thin and simple. [3]
All the species of this genus are restricted to Western Africa.
Species within the genus Cymbium include: