Cymbium (gastropod)

Cymbium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.^[2]

Cymbium
shell of Cymbium glans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Volutoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Cymbium Röding, 1798[1]
Type species
Cymbium jacobinum Röding, 1798
Synonyms[2]
Cymba Broderip, 1826 Yetus Gray, 1855

For the ancient boat, see Cymba (boat).

Description

The oval-oblong shell is ventricose. The spire is short, the protoconch is large, globular, deciduous, when present forming an obtuse papillary apex. The few whorls form a flat edge round the protoconch. The aperture is oblong and wide The columella shows several oblique plaits. The outer lip is thin and simple.^[3]

Distribution

All the species of this genus are restricted to Western Africa.

Species

Species within the genus Cymbium include:

• Cymbium coenyei Nolf, 2017
• Cymbium cucumis Röding, 1798^[4]
• Cymbium cymbium (Linnaeus, 1758)^[5]
• Cymbium fragile Fittkau & Stürmer, 1985^[6]
• Cymbium glans (Gmelin, 1791)^[7]
• Cymbium gracile (Broderip, 1830)^[8]
• Cymbium marmoratum Link, 1807^[9]
• Cymbium olla (Linnaeus, 1758)^[10]
• Cymbium pachyus (Pallary, 1930)^[11]
• Cymbium patulum (Broderip, 1830)^[12]
• Cymbium pepo (Lightfoot, 1786)^[13]
• Cymbium senegalense Marche-Marchad, 1978^[14]
• Cymbium souliei Marche-Marchad, 1974^[15]
• Cymbium tritonis (Broderip, 1830)^[16]

Species brought into synonymy

• Cymbium aethiopicum (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Melo aethiopicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cymbium caputvelatum Bruynseels, 1975: synonym of Cymbium tritonis (Broderip, 1830)
• Cymbium cisium Menke, 1828: synonym of Cymbium cymbium (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cymbium flammeum Röding, 1798: synonym of Melo amphora (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Cymbium guttatum Röding, 1798: synonym of Cymbium pepo (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Cymbium indicum (Gmelin, 1790):^[17] synonym of Melo melo (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Cymbium inflata Röding, 1798: synonym of Cymbium pepo (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Cymbium jacobinum Röding, 1798: synonym of Cymbium cymbium (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cymbium maculatum Röding, 1798: synonym of Melo melo (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Cymbium melo (Lightfoot, 1786): synonym of Melo melo (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Cymbium navicula Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Cymbium pepo (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Cymbium neptuni Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Cymbium pepo (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Cymbium papillaris Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Cymbium pepo (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Cymbium papillatum Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Cymbium olla (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cymbium philipinum Röding, 1798: synonym of Cymbium olla (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cymbium praeputium Röding, 1798: synonym of Cymbium pepo (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Cymbium productum R. T. Lowe, 1861: synonym of Cymbium olla (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cymbium rubiginosum (R. T. Lowe, 1861): synonym of Cymbium cucumis Röding, 1798
• Cymbium rubiginosum (Swainson, 1822): synonym of Cymbium cucumis Röding, 1798
• Cymbium unicolor Link, 1807: synonym of Cymbium cymbium (Linnaeus, 1758)