Cymbiola

Cymbiola
Shell of Cymbiola laminusa (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Volutoidea
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Cymbiola
Swainson, 1831
Type species
Voluta cymbiola Gmelin, J.F., 1791
Synonyms
List of synonyms
  • Aulica Gray, 1847
  • Aulicina Rovereto, 1899
  • Ausoba H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Cymbiola (Aulicina) Rovereto, 1899 junior subjective synonym
  • Cymbiola (Cymbiola) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) Iredale, 1929 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cymbiola (Magnavictoria) Poppe & Tagarao, 2020· accepted, alternate representation
  • Cymbiolacca Iredale, 1929
  • Cymbiolena Iredale, 1929
  • Cymbiolena (Cymbiolacca) Iredale, 1929 junior subjective synonym
  • Melo (Ausoba) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 junior objective synonym
  • Pseudocymbiola McMichael, 1961
  • Scapha Gray, 1855
  • Scapha (Aulica) J. E. Gray, 1847 junior subjective synonym
  • Voluta (Aulica) J. E. Gray, 1847 junior subjective synonym
  • Voluta (Cymbiola) Swainson, 1831 superseded rank
  • Voluta (Scapha) J. E. Gray, 1847 junior subjective synonym
  • Voluta (Vespertilio) Mörch, 1852
  • Volutocorona Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954

Cymbiola is a genus of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Amoriinae of 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.