Cymbium cucumis
Appearance
Cymbium cucumis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: | Cymbium |
Species: | C. cucumis
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Binomial name | |
Cymbium cucumis Röding, 1798
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Cymbium cucumis, commonly known as the cucumber volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean of Morocco.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Cymbium cucumis Röding, 1798. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- Lowe R.T. (1861). A list of shells observed or collected at Mogador and in its immediate environs, during a few days' visit to the place, in April 1859. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1860: 169-204
- Pallary P. (1930). Révision du genre Yetus. Annales du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille 22(3): 54-77, pl. 1-2
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
- Bail, P.; Poppe, G.T. (2001). A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl.
External links
[edit]- Röding P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp
- MNHN, Paris: syntype