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Sinum cymba

Description

Sinum cymba, common name the concave ear moon snail, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)5935626https://www.gbif.org/species/5935626
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)62248https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=62248
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Naticidae : Sinum : Sinum cymba
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Naticidae : Sinum : Sinum cymba
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMolluscaLinnaeus 1758
classGastropodaCuvier 1797
superorderHypsogastropoda
infraorderLittorinimorphaGolikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamilyNaticoidea(Forbes 1838)
familyNaticidaeGuilding 1834
subfamilySininaeWoodring 1928
genusSinumRöding 1798
speciesSinum cymbaMenke 1828
Generic NameSinum
Scientific NameSinum cymba (Menke, 1828)
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Sinum cymbaspeciesbelongs to Sigaretusstated with evidenceMenke, 1828
Sinum cymbaspeciesbelongs to Sinumstated with evidenceMukerjee, 1939
Sinum cymbaspeciesbelongs to Sinumstated without evidenceMarincovich, 1977
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
Extant Size (PBDB)1 (100%)
First Recorded Appearance23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene
Motilityactively mobile (based on Sinum)
Visionlimited (based on Gastropoda)
Dietcarnivore (based on Sinum)
Taphonomyaragonite (based on Naticidae)
Primary Reference (PBDB)P. N. Mukerjee. 1939. Fossil fauna from the Tertiary of Garo Hills, Assam. Palaeontologia Indica 28(1):1-101
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinum_cymba

Fossil Distribution

Obsolete Names

NameSourceTaxon RankTaxonomy
Natica cymba Menke, 1828GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Naticidae : Sinum : Natica cymba
Sigaretus cymba (Menke, 1828)GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Naticidae : Sinum : Sigaretus cymba
Sigaretus maximus Philippi, 1844GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Naticidae : Sinum : Sigaretus maximus

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1828Sigaretus cymba Menke p. 42
1939Sinum cymba Mukerjee p. 43
1977Sinum cymba Marincovich p. 343

References

Mukerjee P. N. (1939) Fossil fauna from the Tertiary of Garo Hills, Assam, Palaeontologia Indica 28 1, 1-101
Marincovich L. (1977) Cenozoic Naticidae (Mollusca; Gastropoda) of the northeastern Pacific, Bulletins of American Paleontology
Keen, A. M. 1971. Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls. - via World Register of Marine Species
Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011). Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum. 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls. - via World Register of Marine Species
Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae: Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum. 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls - via Catalogue of Life
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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