Sinum cymba, common name the concave ear moon snail, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]
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| Five views of a shell of Sinum cymba | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Sinum cymba | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Naticidae |
| Genus: | Sinum |
| Species: | S. cymba
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| Binomial name | |
| Sinum cymba (Menke, 1828)
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Natica cymba Menke, 1828 | |
It was classified by the German malacologist Karl Theodor Menke in 1828 with the name Natica cymba.
Description
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Shell with a wide opening, brown and smooth; with an external coloration of purplish-brown to pale, gray or white, on a surface with a waxy shine, provided with fine spiral lines. The spiral is low and up to 7 centimeters long, when developed; ending in a broad turn. There is no umbilical underneath. The outer lip is thin and angular.[2][3][4][5]
The species lives in cold, shallow waters.[6]
Distribution
editIt is common in the eastern Pacific Ocean, on the coasts of South America to Chile, including the Galápagos, and southern Central America,in Panama.[2][3]
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Subfamily Sininae
editThe Naticidae of the subfamily Sininae have a low spiral and a wide aperture or so wide that they are mistaken for abalones without perforations; they have auriform (ear -shaped) shells. They have a very small horny operculum.
References
edit- ^ a b Sinum cymba (Menke, 1828). WoRMS (2009). Sinum concavum (Lamarck, 1822). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575242 on 26 November 2012 .
- ^ a b Isermann, Lukas; Gavras, Konstantin (2021-03-10). "archiveRetriever: Retrieve Archived Web Pages from the 'Internet Archive'". CRAN: Contributed Packages. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
- ^ a b Peter, P. (2002). The Photographic Recognition Guide to Seashells of the World (2nd ed.). London, England: Dorling Kindersley. p. 78. ISBN 0-7894-8987-2.
- ^ Wye, Kenneth R. (1989). The Mitchell Beazley pocket guide to shells of the world. London: M. Beazley. ISBN 978-0-85533-738-4.
- ^ Ferrario, Marco (1992). Guía del Coleccionista de Conchas [Shell Collectors' Guide] (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Barcelona, Spain: Editorial de Vecchi. p. 83. ISBN 84-315-1972-X.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Abbott, R. Tucker; Dance, S. Peter (1982). Compendium of seashells: a color guide to more than 4,200 of the world's marine shells (1st ed.). New York: E.P. Dutton. ISBN 978-0-525-93269-7.
External links
edit- Three views of the shell of Sinum cymba (Panama), on Flickr, by Pei-Jan Wang.
- "Sinum concavum". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 4 May 2011.