Cymbiola cymbiola, common name the crown volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Genus: | Cymbiola |
| Species: | C. cymbiola
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| Cymbiola cymbiola (Gmelin, 1791)
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Description
editThe size of the shell varies between 55 mm and 85 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Indonesia (Moluccas) and off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)
References
edit- ^ a b Cymbiola cymbiola (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- 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.
- 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
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