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Cymia Mörch, 1860 
AphiaID: 395243

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Rapaninae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Cuma sulcata Swainson, 1840 (type by typification of replaced name)
Parent Rapaninae Gray, 1853
Synonymised
taxa
  Cuma Swainson, 1840 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cuma H. Milne-Edwards, 1828 [Crustacea]; Cymia and Cumopsis are replacement names)
Cumopsis Rovereto, 1899 (objective synonym of Cymia)
Purpura (Cuma)
Sources  source of synonymy (from synonym): 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], available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.014 [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Cymia tectum (Wood, 1828)

Species Cymia carinifera (Lamarck, 1822) accepted as Indothais lacera (Born, 1778)
Species Cymia dubia Schepman, 1922 accepted as Indothais dubia (Schepman, 1919)
Environment marine
Link To GenBank
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:395243
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2009-05-24 10:50:18Z  created  Houart, Roland
2009-05-27 16:22:23Z  changed  Houart, Roland
2010-09-06 19:29:08Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
2012-12-27 11:15:59Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2013). Cymia Mörch, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=395243 on 2013-06-19
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