| Cymbiola vespertilio | |
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| A shell of Cymbiola vespertilio | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Subfamily: | Amoriinae |
| Genus: | Cymbiola |
| Species: | C. vespertilio |
| Binomial name | |
| Cymbiola vespertilio Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Cymbiola vespertilio, common name the bat volute, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. [1]
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This is an Central Indo-Pacific species, found off the Philippines and Northern Australia.
The size of an adult shell varies between 45 mm and 160 mm.