Cyphoma macumba

Cyphoma macumba is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.^[1]

Cyphoma macumba
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Ovulidae
Subfamily:	Simniinae
Genus:	Cyphoma
Species:	C. macumba
Binomial name
Cyphoma macumba Petuch, 1979

This species has become an (uncertain) synonym of Cyphoma gibbosum (Linnaeus, 1758)^[2]

Distribution

Endemic to Brazil - from Ceará to Rio de Janeiro State (belonged to the Bahian Subprovince, including Abrolhos archipelago, according to Petuch, 2013).

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 32.5 mm.^[3]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 2 m.^[3] Maximum recorded depth is 10 m.^[3]