Cymbium pachyus, commonly known as the dilated baler volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Cymbium pachyus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Cymbium
Species:
C. pachyus
Binomial name
Cymbium pachyus
(Pallary, 1930)
Synonyms

Yetus pachyus Pallary, 1930

Description

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Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Cameroun.

References

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  • Pallary P. (1930). Révision du genre Yetus. Annales du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille 22(3): 54-77, pl. 1-2
  • Bail, P.; Poppe, G.T. (2001). A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl.
  • Nolf F. (2017). The distribution of species belonging to the genus Cymbium (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Volutidae) in Angolan waters and the description of a new species. Neptunea. 14(3): 1-36
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