Cymatium nicobaricum

Taxobox
name = "Cymatium nicobaricum"

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image_caption = In Hawaii, a group of three "Cymatium nicobaricum" (probably a mating pair and another male) have attracted a predatory "Conus pennaeus", which is attacking the largest "Cymatium"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
superfamilia = Tonnoidea
familia = Ranellidae
subfamilia = Ranellinae
genus = "Cymatium"
species = "C. nicobaricum"
binomial = "Cymatium nicobaricum"
binomial_authority = (Röding, 1798)

"Cymatium nicobaricum" is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, a tropical marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ranellidae, the tritons.

Distribution

This species of marine snail lives in the Indo-Pacific and Western Atlantic oceans.

References

Books

* Abbott, R. Tucker, 1974. "American Seashells", second edition. Van Nostrand Rheinhold, New York, ISBN 0-442-20228-8

External links

* Some information: [http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/C/Cymatium_nicobaricum.asp]
* Image of live individual in Hawaii: [http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/basch/uhnpscesu/htms/kalainvr/fish_pops/ranellid/shell01.htm]