Cymbiola

Cymbiola is a genus of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.^[2]

Cymbiola
Shell of Cymbiola laminusa (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Volutoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Cymbiola Swainson, 1831[1]
Type species
Voluta cymbiola Gmelin, J.F., 1791
Synonyms[2]
Aulica Gray, 1847 Aulicina Rovereto, 1899 Ausoba H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Cymbiola (Cymbiola) · accepted, alternate representation Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) Iredale, 1929 · accepted, alternate representation Cymbiola (Magnavictoria) Poppe & Tagarao, 2020· accepted, alternate representation Cymbiolacca Iredale, 1929 Cymbiolena Iredale, 1929 Pseudocymbiola McMichael, 1961 Scapha Gray, 1855 Volutocorona Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954

Cymbiola imperialis (Lightfoot, 1786), museum specimens Naturalis.

Some of the species within this genus are sometimes placed in the genus Cymbiolacca Iredale, 1929, which is also sometimes treated as a subgenus of Cymbiola.

Description

The thin shell is ovate and cymbiform. The spire is more or less produced. The apex is papillary and somewhat irregular. The aperture is wide. The inner lip shows a thin callus. The columella contains a few oblique plaits at the fore part. The acute outer lip is often somewhat dilated.^[3]

Species

Species within the genus Cymbiola include:

• Cymbiola alexisallaryi (Cossignani, 2018)
• † Cymbiola ambugensis (Harzhauser, Raven & Landau, 2018)
• Cymbiola aulica (Sowerby I, 1825)
• Cymbiola baili (Prati & Raybaudi, 1997)
• Cymbiola cathcartiae (Reeve, 1856)^[4]
• Cymbiola chrysostoma (Swainson, 1824)
• Cymbiola complexa (Iredale, 1924)
• Cymbiola cracenta (McMichael, 1963)
• Cymbiola cymbiola (Gmelin, 1791)
• Cymbiola deshayesi (Reeve, 1854)
• Cymbiola flavicans (Gmelin, 1791)
• † Cymbiola gedinganensis (K. Martin, 1895)
• Cymbiola houarti (Bail & Limpus, 1998)
• Cymbiola hughmorrisoni (Bail & Limpus, 1997)
• Cymbiola imperialis (Lightfoot, 1786)^[5]
• Cymbiola innexa (Reeve, 1849)
• Cymbiola intruderi (Poppe, 1985)
• Cymbiola irvinae (Smith, 1909)
• Cymbiola kimbacki (Bail & Limpus, 2014)
• Cymbiola laminusa (Poppe, Tagaro & Bail, 2011)^[4]
• Cymbiola magnifica (Gebauer, 1802)
• Cymbiola malayensis (Douté & Bail, 2000)
• Cymbiola mariaemma (Gray, 1858)
• † Cymbiola molengraaffi (Cox, 1948)
• † Cymbiola monocoronata (P. J. Fischer, 1927)
• Cymbiola moretonensis (Bail & Limpus, 1998)
• † Cymbiola multiplicata (Pannekoek, 1936)
• Cymbiola nivosa (Lamarck, 1804)
• Cymbiola nobilis (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Cymbiola palawanica (Douté & Bail, 2000)^[4]
• Cymbiola perplicata (Hedley, 1902)
• Cymbiola provocationis (McMichael, 1961)
• Cymbiola pulchra = Cymbiolacca pulchra, see Cymbiolacca pulchra wisemani
• † Cymbiola rembangensis (Pannekoek, 1936)
• Cymbiola rossiniana (Bernardi, 1859)
• Cymbiola rutila (Broderip, 1826)
• Cymbiola scottjordani (Poppe & Tagaro, 2005)
• Cymbiola sophia (Gray, 1846)
• Cymbiola subelongata (Bail & Limpus, 1998)
• Cymbiola thatcheri (McCoy, 1868)
• † Cymbiola tjilonganensis (K. Martin, 1906)
• † Cymbiola transverseplicata (Pannekoek, 1936)
• Cymbiola vespertilio (Linnaeus, 1758)

Species brought into synonymy

• Cymbiola complexa Iredale, 1924: synonym of Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) pulchra complexa Iredale, 1924
• Cymbiola excelsior Bail & Limpus, 1998: synonym of Cymbiola pulchra excelsior Bail & Limpus, 1998 (original rank)
• Cymbiola lutea R. B. Watson, 1882 : synonym of Alcithoe lutea (R. B. Watson, 1882) (original combination)
• Cymbiola marispuma Angioy & Biraghi, 1977: synonym of Cymbiola (Cymbiola) innexa (Reeve, 1849)
• Cymbiola randalli Stokes, 1961: synonym of Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) pulchra wisemani (Brazier, 1870)
• Cymbiola tamariskae Sutanto & Patamakanthin, 2004: synonym of Cymbiola nobilis tamariskae Sutanto & Patamakanthin, 2004