Cymbium (gastropod)

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Cymbium
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shell of Cymbium glans
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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]
  • CymbaBroderip, 1826
  • YetusGray, 1855

Cymbium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae. [2]

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Description

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]

Distribution

All the species of this genus are restricted to Western Africa.

Species

Species within the genus Cymbium include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. pp. [1-3], [1-8], 1-199. Hamburg.
  2. 1 2 Cymbium Röding, 1798 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  3. Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls
  4. Cymbium cucumis Röding, 1798 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  5. Cymbium cymbium (Linnaeus, 1758) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  6. Cymbium fragile Fittkau & Stürmer, 1985 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  7. Cymbium glans (Gmelin, 1791) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  8. Cymbium gracile (Broderip, 1830) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  9. Cymbium marmoratum Link, 1807 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  10. Cymbium olla (Linnaeus, 1758) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  11. Cymbium pachyus (Pallary, 1930) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  12. Cymbium patulum (Broderip, 1830) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  13. Cymbium pepo (Lightfoot, 1786) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  14. Cymbium senegalensis Marche-Marchad, 1978 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  15. Cymbium souliei Marche-Marchad, 1974 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  16. Cymbium tritonis (Broderip, 1830) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  17. Cymbium indicum (Gmelin, 1790) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.