Cymbium glans

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Cymbium glans
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Shell of Cymbium glans
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Cymbium
Species:
C. glans
Binomial name
Cymbium glans
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms [1]

Voluta proboscidale Lamarck, 1811

Cymbium glans, commonly known as the elephant's snout volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes. [1]

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