Cymbula

Cymbula is a genus of sea snails, the true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Patellidae.^[1]

Cymbula
Cymbula compressa shell
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Patellogastropoda
Family:	Patellidae
Genus:	Cymbula H. & A. Adams, 1854
Type species
Patella compressa Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
Laevipatella Pallary, 1920 Patella (Cymbula) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 Patella (Laevipatella) Pallary, 1920 Patellona Thiele, 1891

Species

Species within the genus Cymbula include:

• Cymbula adansonii (Dunker, 1853)^[2]
• Cymbula canescens (Gmelin, 1791)^[3]
• Cymbula compressa (Linnaeus, 1758)^[4]
• Cymbula depsta (Reeve, 1855)^[5]
• Cymbula granatina (Linnaeus, 1758)^[6]
• Cymbula miniata (Born, 1778)^[7]
• Cymbula oculus (Born, 1778)^[8]
• Cymbula safiana (Lamarck, 1819)
• Cymbula sanguinans (Reeve, 1854)

Species brought into synonymy

• Cymbula nigra (da Costa, 1771):^[9] synonym of Cymbula safiana (Lamarck, 1819)