Cymbiola flavicans

Cymbiola flavicans
Apertural view of a shell of Cymbiola flavicans (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Volutidae
Subfamily: Amoriinae
Genus: Cymbiola
Subgenus: Cymbiola
Species: C. flavicans
Binomial name
Cymbiola flavicans
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
  • Aulica kellneri Iredale, 1957
  • Aulica quaesita Iredale, 1956
  • Cymbiola (Cymbiola) flavicans (Gmelin, 1791) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Voluta lugubris Swainson, 1823
  • Voluta modesta Wood, 1828
  • Voluta signifer Broderip, 1848
  • Voluta tissotiana Crosse, 1867
  • Voluta volvacea Lamarck, 1811

Cymbiola flavicans, common name the yellow volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 60 mm and 100 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland).

References

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