Biology:Cymbium souliei

Short description: Species of gastropod

Cymbium souliei
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. souliei
Binomial name
Cymbium souliei Marche-Marchad, 1974

Cymbium souliei, commonly known as the Soulie's volute is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Ivory Coast.

References

• Marche-Marchad, I. (1974). Une nouvelle espèce du genre ouest-africain Cymbium Röding (C. souliei, sp. Nov., Mollusca Prosobranchia, Volutidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire. 35(1), sér. A: 62-68.

External links

• MNHN, Paris: holotype

Wikidata ☰ Q5199484 entry