Cymbiola

Cymbiola
A shell of Cymbiola vespertilio
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Cymbiola Swainson, 1831[1]
Type species
Voluta cymbiola Gmelin, J.F., 1791
Synonyms[2]
Aulica Gray, 1847 Aulicina Rovereto, 1899 Ausoba H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Cymbiola (Cymbiola) · accepted, alternate representation Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) Iredale, 1929 · accepted, alternate representation Cymbiolacca Iredale, 1929 Cymbiolena Iredale, 1929 Pseudocymbiola McMichael, 1961 Scapha Gray, 1855 Volutocorona Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954

Cymbiola imperialis (Lightfoot, 1786), museum specimens Naturalis.

Cymbiola is a genus of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. ^[2]

Some of the species within this genus are sometimes placed in the genus Cymbiolacca Iredale, 1929, which is also sometimes treated as a subgenus of Cymbiola.

Species

Species and subspecies within the genus Cymbiola include:

• Cymbiola aulica (Sowerby I, 1825)
• Cymbiola cathcartiae (Reeve, 1856)^[3]
• Cymbiola excelsior Bail & Limpus, 1998
• Cymbiola imperialis (Lightfoot, 1786)^[4]
• Cymbiola laminusa Poppe, Tagaro & Bail, 2011^[3]
• Cymbiola lutea
• Cymbiola palawanica Douté & Bail, 2000^[3]
• Cymbiola pulchra = Cymbiolacca pulchra, see Cymbiolacca pulchra wisemani
• Cymbiola scottjordani Poppe & Tagaro, 2005
• Cymbiola tamariskae Sutanto & Patamakanthin, 2004
• Cymbiola vespertilio Linnaeus, 1758

Subgenus Cymbiola (Cymbiola) sensu stricto

• Cymbiola baili Prati & Raybaudi, 1997
• Cymbiola chrysostoma (Swainson, 1824)
• Cymbiola cymbiola (Gmelin, 1791)
• Cymbiola deshayesi (Reeve, 1854)
• Cymbiola flavicans (Gmelin, 1791)
• Cymbiola hughmorrisoni Bail & Limpus, 1997
• Cymbiola innexa (Reeve, 1849)
• Cymbiola irvinae (Smith, 1909)
• Cymbiola magnifica (Gebauer, 1802)
• Cymbiola malayensis Douté & Bail, 2000
• Cymbiola mariaemma Gray, 1858
• Cymbiola nivosa (Lamarck, 1804)
• Cymbiola nobilis (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Cymbiola rossiniana (Bernardi, 1859)
• Cymbiola rutila (Broderip, 1826)
• Cymbiola sophia (Gray, 1846)

Subgenus Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) Iredale, 1929

• Cymbiola intruderi Poppe, 1985
• Cymbiola perplicata (Hedley, 1902)
• Cymbiola thatcheri (McCoy, 1868)

Species brought into synonymy

• Cymbiola complexa Iredale, 1924: synonym of Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) pulchra complexa Iredale, 1924
• Cymbiola marispuma Angioy & Biraghi, 1977: synonym of Cymbiola (Cymbiola) innexa (Reeve, 1849)
• Cymbiola randalli Stokes, 1961: synonym of Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) pulchra wisemani(Brazier, 1870)

References

1. Swainson W. J. (1831). Zool. Ill. (2)2(18).
2. Bail, P. (2010). Cymbiola Swainson, 1831. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382352 on 2011-04-09
3. Poppe, G. T.; Tagaro, S. P. & Bail, P. (2011). "Notes on the genus Cymbiola in the Philippines, with the redefinition of Cymbiola cathcartiae Reeve, 1856 and the description of Cymbiola laminusa n.sp.". Visaya 3 (4): 76–87.
4. Bail, P. (2010). Cymbiola (Cymbiola) imperialis (Lightfoot, 1786) . In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=385359 on 2010-09-27

• Bail, P & Poppe, G. T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim-Conchbook, 30 pp, 5 pl.

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