Cymbiola mariaemma
Cymbiola mariaemma | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: | Cymbiola |
Species: | C. mariaemma |
Binomial name | |
Cymbiola mariaemma Gray, 1858 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Voluta grayae Crosse, 1871 |
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]
Description
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Distribution
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References
[edit]- ^ a b Cymbiola mariaemma Gray, 1858. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ 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.