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Cymbiola flavicans
Apertural view of a shell of Cymbiola flavicans (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Cymbiola
Species:	C. flavicans
Binomial name
Cymbiola flavicans (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
Aulica kellneri Iredale, 1957 Aulica quaesita Iredale, 1956 Cymbiola (Cymbiola) flavicans (Gmelin, 1791) · accepted, alternate representation Voluta lugubris Swainson, 1823 Voluta modesta Wood, 1828 Voluta signifer Broderip, 1848 Voluta tissotiana Crosse, 1867 Voluta volvacea Lamarck, 1811

Cymbiola flavicans, common name the yellow volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Description

The size of the shell varies between 60 mm and 100 mm.

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Distribution

This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland).

References

1. ^ Cymbiola flavicans (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

• Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910.
• Lamarck, J.P.B.A de M. 1811. Suite de la détermination des espèces de mollusques testacés, Mitre (Mitra). Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 17: 54–80, 195–222
• Swainson, W. 1823. The characters of several rare and undescribed shells. Philosophical Magazine London 61: 375–378
• Wood, W. 1828. Index Testaceologicus; or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system. London : Taylor Supplement, pp. 1–59, pls 1–8.
• Broderip, W.J. 1847. Description of a new species of Volute. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 232–233
• Crosse, J.C.H. 1867. Description d'espèces nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 3 5: 195–197
• Iredale, T. 1956. A Northern Australian Volute. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1954–55: 76–77, fig. 71
• Iredale, T. 1957. Another Australian Volute. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1955–56: 91–92
• Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes – A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1–375.
• Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1–107.
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
• Bail P. & Poppe G.T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl.

External links

• "Cymbiola flavicans". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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