Cymbium pepo (Lightfoot, 1786) VOLUTIDAE -10~20m, Trawled by - TopicsExpress



          

Cymbium pepo (Lightfoot, 1786) VOLUTIDAE -10~20m, Trawled by local fisherman, Sanyang, southern Gambia, 244.8mm, F+, 2012/iii The Neptune Volute is a very large volute endemic to west Africa with a distribution from Western Sahara to Nigeria. It is the most globular and one of the largest Cymbium species, Cymbium being a genus of large to very large volutes known from west Africa to Mediterranean Sea. A common species, it has a gigantic foot which like many other Cymbium species is used by locals as food and sometimes exported in frozen state. It is a carnivorous gastropod usually found on sandy bottoms of shallow water around -10~50m deep. Typical shell length around 200mm, very large specimens may exceed 300mm. Large specimens are uncommon on the shell market, partly due to difficulty in transporting its large and fragile shell. Sinistral specimens appears to be more frequent than usual in this species, as well as other species in genus Cymbium.
Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2014 16:15:20 +0000

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