Cymatium nicobaricum

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Cymatium nicobaricum
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
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Superorder: Caenogastropoda Order: Sorbeoconcha Suborder: Hypsogastropoda Superfamily: Tonnoidea Family: Ranellidae Subfamily: Ranellinae Genus: Cymatium Species: C. nicobaricum
Binomial name
Cymatium nicobaricum (Röding, 1798)

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

[edit] Distribution

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

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Some information: [1]
• Image of live individual in Hawaii: [2]