Cymatium lotorium
| Cymatium lotorium Temporal range: Eocene - Recent | |
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| A shell of Cymatium lotorium with the periostracum removed | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
| Family: | Ranellidae |
| Subfamily: | Ranellinae |
| Genus: | Cymatium |
| Species: | C. lotorium |
| Binomial name | |
| Cymatium lotorium (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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Cymatium lotorium, common name Black-spotted or Washing Bath Triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a tropical marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ranellidae, the tritons.
Fossil records
Fossil shell of Cymatium lotorium from Pliocene of Italy
Cymatium fossils date back to the Eocene (age range: from 55.8 to 0.012 million years ago).[2]
Description
Shells of Cymatium lotorium can reach a size of 90–160 millimetres (3.5–6.3 in).[3][4]
Distribution
This species of marine snail lives in the tropical Indo-Pacific oceans. [4][5]
Habitat
It is quite common in coral reefs in Australia and the Indian Ocean.
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