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Cymia

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Description

Cymia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4363642	https://www.gbif.org/species/4363642
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11013	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11013

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : Cymia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Muricidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Cymia	Mörch 1860

Scientific Name

Cymia Mörch, 1860

Name Published In

Malak. Bl., 7, 97

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cymia	genus	belongs to Thaisidae	stated without evidence	Olsson, 1931
Cymia	subgenus	belongs to Thais	stated with evidence	Oostingh, 1935
Cymia	genus	belongs to Thaididae	stated with evidence	Woodring, 1959
Cymia	subgenus	belongs to Thais	stated with evidence	Ladd, 1977
Cymia	genus	belongs to Thaididae	stated with evidence	Perrilliat, 1987
Cymia	genus	belongs to Muricidae	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Cymia	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (29%)

First Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 38.0 Ma
Eocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Muricidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Muricidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymia

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cymia (Cymia) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		26	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Cymia berryi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cymia brightoniana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cymia cheloma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cymia cocoditana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		23	20.4 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Cymia heimi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Cymia henekeni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cymia marcanoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cymia michaocanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Cymia pluriplicata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cymia sacellum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Cymia sekii ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Cymia tectum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cymia woodii ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Fasciolaria woodii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Purpura preangerensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thais (Cymia) carinifera species	listed (PBDB)		8	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Thais (Cymia) costata species	listed (PBDB)		4	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Thais (Cymia) javanica species	listed (PBDB)		3	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Thais (Cymia) preangerensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Cumopsis Rovereto, 1899	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : *Cumopsis*
Cuma Swainson, 1840	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : *Cuma*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1860	Cymia Mörch
1931	Cymia Olsson p. 105
1935	Thais (Cymia) Oostingh p. 65
1959	Cymia Woodring p. 223
1977	Thais (Cymia) Ladd p. 41
1987	Cymia Perrilliat p. 17
2001	Cymia Todd
2002	Cymia Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Olsson A. A. (1931) Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene, Bulletins of American Paleontology 17 63

Oostingh C. H. (1935) Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java), Dienst van den Mijnbouw in Nederlandsch-Indië Wetenschappelijke Mededeelingen 26, 1-247

Woodring W. P. (1959) Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306 B, 147-239

Ladd H. S. (1977) Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 533, 1-84

Perrilliat M.C. (1987) Gasteropodos y un cefalopodo de la formacion Ferrotepec (Mioceno Medio) de Michoacan, Paleontologia Mexicana 52, 1-58

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102. [Published online 28 September 2012; Code-compliant paper version published January 2013] - via World Register of Marine Species

Malak. Bl., 7, 97 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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