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
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Cymbiola
Species:	C. mariaemma
Binomial name
Cymbiola mariaemma Gray, 1858
Synonyms[1]
Voluta grayae Crosse, 1871

Description

Shell size 140 mm.

Distribution

Indo-Pacific region: Singapore; Sulawesi, Indonesia.