Cymbium (gastropod)

Cymbium
shell of Cymbium glans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Volutoidea
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Cymbium
Röding, 1798
Type species
Cymbium jacobinum Röding, 1798
Synonyms
  • Cymba Broderip, 1826
  • Yetus Gray, 1855

Cymbium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.

Description

The oval-oblong shell is ventricose. The spire is short, the protoconch is large, globular, deciduous, when present forming an obtuse papillary apex. The few whorls form a flat edge round the protoconch. The aperture is oblong and wide The columella shows several oblique plaits. The outer lip is thin and simple.

Distribution

All the species of this genus are restricted to Western Africa.

Species

Species within the genus Cymbium include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ↑ 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. pp. [1-3], [1-8], 1-199. Hamburg.
  2. 1 2 Cymbium Röding, 1798. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  3. ↑ Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls
  4. ↑ Cymbium cucumis Röding, 1798. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  5. ↑ Cymbium cymbium (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  6. ↑ Cymbium fragile Fittkau & Stürmer, 1985. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  7. ↑ Cymbium glans (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  8. ↑ Cymbium gracile (Broderip, 1830). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  9. ↑ Cymbium marmoratum Link, 1807. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  10. ↑ Cymbium olla (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  11. ↑ Cymbium pachyus (Pallary, 1930). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  12. ↑ Cymbium patulum (Broderip, 1830). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  13. ↑ Cymbium pepo (Lightfoot, 1786). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  14. ↑ Cymbium senegalensis Marche-Marchad, 1978. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  15. ↑ Cymbium souliei Marche-Marchad, 1974. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  16. ↑ Cymbium tritonis (Broderip, 1830). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  17. ↑ Cymbium indicum (Gmelin, 1790). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.