Cymbium tritonis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Cymbium tritonis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Cymbium
Species:
C. tritonis
Binomial name
Cymbium tritonis
(Broderip, 1830)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cymba tritonis Broderip, 1830
  • Cymbium caputvelatum Bruynseels, 1975
  • Yetus marocanus Pallary, 1930

Description

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Distribution

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This marine species is found in the European waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.[2] and off Morocco.

References

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  1. ^ a b Cymbium tritonis (Broderip, 1830). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Cymbium tritonis (Broderip, 1830)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  • Pallary P. (1930). Révision du genre Yetus. Annales du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille 22(3): 54-77, pl. 1-2
  • Bruynseels J.K. (1975). Genus Cymbium Röding, 1798. Gloria Maris, Antwerpen 36 pp., 12 pl.: page(s): 14-18; pl. 5
  • Bail, P.; Poppe, G.T. (2001). A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl.
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