''Cumia'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s, marine
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the
family
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Colubrariidae
Colubrariidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea.
Bouchet, P. (2010). Colubrariidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accesse ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Cumia'' include:
* ''
Cumia adjuncta''
(Iredale, 1929)
* ''
Cumia alfredensis''
(Bartsch, 1915)
* ''
Cumia antillana''
(Sarasúa, 1978)
* ''
Cumia bednalli''
(Brazier, 1875)
* ''
Cumia brazieri''
(Angas, 1869)
* ''
Cumia clavula''
Watters, 2009
* ''
Cumia janlochi''
(Parth, 1991)
* ''
Cumia lucasi''
(Bozzetti, 2007)
* ''
Cumia mestayerae''
(Iredale, 1915)
* ''
Cumia reticulata''
(Blainville, 1829)
* ''
Cumia schoutanica
''Cumia schoutanica'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colubrariidae. It is also sometimes referred to as Pisania schoutanica. The species was first described by May in 1911.
Key characteristics
The shell s ...
''
(May, 1910)
* ''
Cumia simonis''
(Bozzetti, 2004)
* ''
Cumia sunderlandi''
(Petuch, 1995)
;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
* 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. . XII, 195 pp.
External links
Bivona-Bernardi And., 1838. Generi e specie di molluschi descritti dal Barone Antonio Bivona e Bernardi. Lavori postumi pubblicati dal figlio Andrea dottore in medicina con note ed aggiunte. Giornale di Scienze Lettere e Arti per la Sicilia 61: 211-227ICZN 1993. Opinion 1765. Fusus Helbling, 1779 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): suppressed, and Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815 and Colubraria Schumacher, 1817: conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 51(2): 159-161
Buccinidae
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