Cymbium olla

Cymbium olla, commonly known as the Algarve volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.^[1] The fermented and dried flesh, called ‘’yeet’’ has a pungent smell, and is used in the Senegalese traditional Thieboudienne.

Cymbium olla
Shell of Cymbium olla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Cymbium
Species:	C. olla
Binomial name
Cymbium olla (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
Cymbium papillatum Schumacher, 1817 Cymbium philipinum Röding, 1798 Cymbium productum Lowe, 1861 Voluta olla Linnaeus, 1758 Yetus productus (R. T. Lowe, 1861) Yetus productus var. major Pallary, 1930 Yetus productus var. major Pallary, 1930 Yetus turriculatus Pallary, 1930

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