Cymbiola mariaemma
| Cymbiola mariaemma | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Genus: | Cymbiola |
| Species: | C. mariaemma
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| Binomial name | |
| Cymbiola mariaemma Gray, 1858
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Voluta grayae Crosse, 1871 | |
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]
Description
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Distribution
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References
[edit]- ^ a b Cymbiola mariaemma Gray, 1858. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Gray, John Edward (1859). "Description of Scapha maria-emma, a New Species of Volute". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 27: 230–231 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.