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 Edit this 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

Description

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Distribution

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References

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  1. ^ a b 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.