Cymbiola mariaemma

Cymbiola mariaemma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1] It was first described by John Edward Gray in 1858 under the name Scapha maria-emma and was named in honor of his wife, Maria Emma Gray, a fellow conchologist and algologist.[2]

Cymbiola mariaemma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Volutidae
Subfamily:
Amoriinae
Genus:
Cymbiola
Subgenus:
Cymbiola
Species:
C. mariaemma
Binomial name
Cymbiola mariaemma
Gray, 1858
Synonyms[1]

Voluta grayae Crosse, 1871

Description

Distribution
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References
  1. Cymbiola mariaemma Gray, 1858. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. Gray, John Edward (1859). "Description of Scapha maria-emma, a New Species of Volute". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 27: 230–231 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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