| Cymbium glans | |
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| Species: | C. glans |
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| Cymbium glans (Gmelin, 1791) | |
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Voluta proboscidale Lamarck, 1811 | |
Cymbium glans, commonly known as the elephant's snout volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. [1]
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