Cymbium glans

Cymbium glans, commonly known as the elephant's snout volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Cymbium glans
shell of Cymbium glans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Volutidae
Subfamily:
Cymbiinae
Genus:
Cymbium
Species:
C. glans
Binomial name
Cymbium glans
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]

Voluta proboscidale Lamarck, 1811

Description

References
  1. Cymbium glans (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.


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