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| Five views of a shell of Sinum cymba | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Sinum cymba | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Naticidae |
| Genus: | Sinum |
| Species: | S. cymba |
| Binomial name | |
| Sinum cymba (Menke, 1828) | |
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Natica cymba Menke, 1828 | |
Sinum cymba, common name the concave ear moon snail, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.
It was classified by the German malacologist Karl Theodor Menke in 1828 with the name Natica cymba.
Description
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Shell with a wide opening, brown and smooth; with an external coloration of purplish-brown to pale, gray or white, on a surface with a waxy shine, provided with fine spiral lines. The spiral is low and up to 7 centimeters long, when developed; ending in a broad turn. There is no umbilical underneath. The outer lip is thin and angular.
The species lives in cold, shallow waters.
Distribution
It is common in the eastern Pacific Ocean, on the coasts of South America to Chile, including the Galápagos, and southern Central America,in Panama.
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Subfamily Sininae
The Naticidae of the subfamily Sininae have a low spiral and a wide aperture or so wide that they are mistaken for abalones without perforations; they have auriform (ear -shaped) shells. They have a very small horny operculum.
References
- ^ Sinum cymba (Menke, 1828). WoRMS (2009). Sinum concavum (Lamarck, 1822). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575242 on 26 November 2012 .
- ^ Isermann, Lukas; Gavras, Konstantin (2021-03-10). "archiveRetriever: Retrieve Archived Web Pages from the 'Internet Archive'". CRAN: Contributed Packages. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
- ^ Peter, P. (2002). The Photographic Recognition Guide to Seashells of the World (2nd ed.). London, England: Dorling Kindersley. p. 78. ISBN 0-7894-8987-2.
- Wye, Kenneth R. (1989). The Mitchell Beazley pocket guide to shells of the world. London: M. Beazley. ISBN 978-0-85533-738-4.
- Ferrario, Marco (1992). Guía del Coleccionista de Conchas [Shell Collectors' Guide] (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Barcelona, Spain: Editorial de Vecchi. p. 83. ISBN 84-315-1972-X.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Abbott, R. Tucker; Dance, S. Peter (1982). Compendium of seashells: a color guide to more than 4,200 of the world's marine shells (1st ed.). New York: E.P. Dutton. ISBN 978-0-525-93269-7.
External links
- Three views of the shell of Sinum cymba (Panama), on Flickr, by Pei-Jan Wang.
- "Sinum concavum". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
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