Cymbiola | |
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A shell of Cymbiola vespertilio | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: |
Cymbiola Swainson, 1831 |
Type species | |
Voluta cymbiola Gmelin, J.F., 1791 |
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Synonyms | |
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Cymbiola is a genus of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Some of the species within this genus are sometimes placed in the genus Cymbiolacca Iredale, 1929, which is also sometimes treated as a subgenus of Cymbiola.
Species and subspecies within the genus Cymbiola include: