Cymatium lotorium

Cymatium lotorium
Temporal range: Eocene - Recent
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)
Synonyms
  • Cymatium cynophalus J.B.P.A. Lamarck, 1816
  • Cymatium distortum J.B.P.A. Lamarck, 1816
  • Lotoria lotorium C. Linnaeus, 1758
  • Cymatium rhinoceros P.F. Röding, 1798

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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.


References

External links

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