Cymbiola nobilis

Cynbiola nobilis
	Five views of a shell of Cymbiola nobilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Amoriinae
Genus:	Cymbiola
Subgenus:	Cymbiola
Species:	C. nobilis
Binomial name
	Cymbiola nobilis; (Lightfoot, 1786)
Synonyms
	Cymbiola (Cymbiola) nobilis (Lightfoot, 1786); Voluta fasciata Schubert & Wagner, 1829; Voluta nobilis [Lightfoot], 1786 (original combination); Voluta scapha Gmelin, 1791;

Cymbiola nobilis (noble volute) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. The snail's shell is commonly collected in the sea shell trade, which has resulted in overharvesting of the snail.

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