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Data as of: 2006-05-17

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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Volutidae 

Cymbiola nobilis (Lightfoot, 1786)

Type of listing: Name in current use

Synonymy

   Voluta nobilis Lightfoot, 1786
   Voluta scapha Gmelin, 1791

Distribution

  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificIndo-MalaysiaSingapore
  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificIndo-ChinaSouth China Sea
  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificIndo-ChinaTaiwan
  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificIndo-ChinaThailand (E)
  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificIndo-MalaysiaPhilippines?
  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificIndo-MalaysiaIndonesiaKalimantan (Indonesian Borneo)?
  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificIndo-ChinaCambodia
     Try, I. 2001. p.400 
  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificIndo-ChinaVietnam
     Nguyen, N.T. 2001. p.420 
  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificIndo-MalaysiaPhilippinesSulu Sea
     Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. p.182 

Keywords

depth: continental shelf [ to 70 m {POPPE1992A} ]
depth: continental shelf 
depth: continental shelf 
depth: intertidal 
depth: shallow subtidal 
depth: subtidal 
substrate: algal turf 
substrate: mud 
substrate: mud bottom 
substrate: sand [ ]
substrate: seaweed [ lives in beds of seaweed {POPPE1992A} ]

References

 Poppe, G.T. 1992. p.165 General reference
 Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. p.165, pl. 72, fig. 1pl. 73, figs. 1-5 [ synonymy, distribution, habitat, description and remarks ]  General reference
 Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. p.83, pl. 34A-D [ synonymy, type information, distribution, habitat, description, animal and radula (fig. 17f) and remarks ]  General reference

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Visceroconcha
          Gastropoda
            Orthogastropoda
              Caenogastropoda
                Sorbeoconcha
                  Hypsogastropoda
                    Neogastropoda
                      Volutoidea
                        Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815
                          Cymbiolinae Bondarev, 1995
                            Cymbiola Swainson, 1831
                              Cymbiola nobilis (Lightfoot, 1786)

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=37919) created by Shannon Reid on 2001-02-04. Record last updated by Shannon Reid on 2003-08-11.