Cumia

Cumia
Shell of Cumia brazieri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Colubrariidae
Genus: Cumia
Bivona-Bernardi, 1838
Type species
Cumia decussata Bivona-Bernardi, 1838
Synonyms[1]
  • Fusus Helbling, 1779 (Invalid: Placed by the ICZN on the Official Index by Opinion 1765)
  • Murex (Fusus) Helbling, 1779
  • Ratifusus Iredale, 1929
  • Triton (Cumia) Bivona, 1838

Cumia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colubrariidae.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Cumia include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Cumia decussata Bivona-Bernardi, 1838: synonym of Cumia reticulata (Blainville, 1829)
  • Cumia reticulata (A. Adams, 1855): synonym of Cumia mestayerae (Iredale, 1915)

References

  1. ^ a b Cumia Bivona-Bernardi, 1838. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 26 November 2010.
  2. ^ Cumia clavula Watters, 2009. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  • Beu A.G. & Maxwell P.A. (1987) A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 54:1-140
  • Vaught, K.C.; Tucker Abbott, R.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
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