Cymbium cymbium

Cymbium cymbium
Shell of Cymbium cymbium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Volutidae
Subfamily: Cymbiinae
Genus: Cymbium
Species: C. cymbium
Binomial name
Cymbium cymbium
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]

Cymba porcina Lamarck, 1811
Cymbium cisium Menke, 1828
Cymbium jacobinum Röding, 1798
Cymbium unicolor Link, 1807
Voluta scafa Lightfoot, 1786

Cymbium cymbium, commonly known as the false elephant's snout volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

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