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Cymbium pepo

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Cymbium pepo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Cymbium
Species:
C. pepo
Binomial name
Cymbium pepo
(Lightfoot, 1786)
Synonyms[1]

Cymbium guttatum Röding, 1798
Cymbium inflata Röding, 1798
Cymbium navicula Gmelin, 1791
Cymbium neptuni Gmelin, 1791
Cymbium papillaris Gmelin, 1791
Cymbium praeputium Röding, 1798

Cymbium pepo, commonly known as the African Neptune volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Description

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Distribution

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It is distributed across the coastal shores of western Africa and can be found in saline mud beaches.

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