Cymbiola nobilis

Cymbiola nobilis
Five views of a shell of Cymbiola nobilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Cymbiola
Species:
C. nobilis
Binomial name
Cymbiola nobilis
(Lightfoot, 1786)
Synonyms
  • Aulica scapha (Gmelin, 1791) ยท
  • Cymbiola (Cymbiola) nobilis (Lightfoot, 1786)
  • Voluta (Aulica) scapha Gmelin, 1791
  • Voluta fasciata Schubert & Wagner, 1829
  • Voluta nobilis [Lightfoot], 1786 (original combination)
  • Voluta scapha Gmelin, 1791

Cymbiola nobilis, the noble volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

The snail's shell is commonly collected in the sea shell trade, which has resulted in overharvesting of the snail.