Cymbiola cymbiola

Cymbiola cymbiola, common name the crown volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Cymbiola cymbiola
Shell of Cymbiola cymbiola (specimen at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Cymbiola
Species:	C. cymbiola
Binomial name
Cymbiola cymbiola (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
Aulica cymbiola (Chemnitz, 1788) Cymbiola (Cymbiola) cymbiola (Gmelin, 1791) · accepted, alternate representation Voluta corona Dillwyn, 1817 Voluta cymbiola Gmelin, 1791 (basionym) Voluta flammula Wood, 1828 Voluta kaupi Dunker, 1863

Description

Their shells are large in size, and the size of the shell varies between 55 mm and 85 mm. Their shells come in two distinct colors. The brown variant is fairly rare and is found in the same regions as the more common cream variant.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Indonesia (Moluccas) and off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

References

• Smith, M. 1942. A review of the Volutidae. Winter Park, Florida : Tropical Photographic Laboratory pp. 1–127, pls 1-26, figs 1–185.
• Wenz, W. 1943. Handbuch der Paläozoologie. Gastropoda. Berlin : Gebrüder Borntraeger Vol. 6 pp. 1311–1355, several text figs.
• Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1–375.
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
• Bail, P & Poppe, G. T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim-Conchbook, 30 pp, 5 pl.

External links

• Cymbiola cymbiola Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910
• Dillwyn, L.W. 1817. A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells, arranged according to the Linnaean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London : John and Arthur Arch 2 volumes 1092 + 29 pp.
• Wood, W. 1828. Index Testaceologicus; or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system. London : Taylor Supplement, pp. 1–59, pls 1–8.
• "Cymbiola cymbiola". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.