Cumia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colubrariidae.[1]

Cumia
Shell of Cumia brazieri
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Colubrariidae
Genus: Cumia
Bivona-Bernardi, 1838
Type species
Cumia decussata Bivona-Bernardi, 1838
Synonyms[1]
  • Fusus Helbling, 1779 (Invalid: Placed by the ICZN on the Official Index by Opinion 1765)
  • Murex (Fusus) Helbling, 1779
  • Ratifusus Iredale, 1929
  • Triton (Cumia) Bivona, 1838

Description

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Cumia is similar in many respects to species of Metula. The sculpture consists of numerous fine spiral threads and axial growth striae, but it is more discreet than in Metula. The protoconch, however, consists of only 1½ to 2 small, depressed nuclear whorls. The varices are indefinite, flat, and adpressed, and are similar to those in Metula mitrella and Metula mitraeformis. The radula of Cumia differs appreciably from that of Metula.[2]

Species

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Species within the genus Cumia include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Cumia decussata Bivona-Bernardi, 1838: synonym of Cumia reticulata (Blainville, 1829)
  • Cumia reticulata (Blainville, 1829): synonym of Cumia intertexta (Helbling, 1779) (junior homonym, secondary homonym of Colubraria or Cumia reticulata (Blainville, 1829); Fusus mestayerae is a replacement name)

References

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  1. 1 2 Cumia Bivona-Bernardi, 1838. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 26 November 2010.
  2. Powell, A.W.B. (1971). "Powell". Powell. 6: 152. Retrieved 6 June 2026. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is under a CC BY 4.0 license.
  3. Cumia clavula Watters, 2009. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  • Beu A.G. & Maxwell P.A. (1987) A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 54:1-140
  • Vaught, K.C.; Tucker Abbott, R.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
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