Cymbium cucumis

Cymbium cucumis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Cymbium
Species:	C. cucumis
Binomial name
Cymbium cucumis Röding, 1798
Synonyms [1]
Cymbium rubiginosum(Lowe, 1861) Cymbium rubiginosum(Swainson, 1822) Cymbium rubiginosum angulataLowe, 1861 Cymbium rubiginosum incurvaLowe, 1861 Cymbium rubiginosum var. angulataR. T. Lowe, 1861 Cymbium rubiginosum var. incurvaR. T. Lowe, 1861 Voluta rubiginosaSwainson, 1821 Yetus marocanus var. dilatataPallary, 1930 Yetus rubiginosus(Swainson, 1822) Yetus rubiginosus var. sacellaDollfus, 1911

Cymbium cucumis, commonly known as the cucumber volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. ^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean of Morocco.

References

1. Cymbium cucumis Röding, 1798 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .

• Lowe R.T. (1861). A list of shells observed or collected at Mogador and in its immediate environs, during a few days' visit to the place, in April 1859. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1860: 169-204
• Pallary P. (1930). Révision du genre Yetus. Annales du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille 22(3): 54-77, pl. 1-2
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
• Bail, P.; Poppe, G.T. (2001). A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl.

External links

• 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. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp
• MNHN, Paris: syntype