Cumia

Cumia
	Shell of Cumia brazieri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Colubrariidae
Genus:	Cumia; Bivona-Bernardi, 1838
Type species
	Cumia decussata Bivona-Bernardi, 1838;
Synonyms
	Fusus Helbling, 1779 (Invalid: Placed by the ICZN on the Official Index by Opinion 1765); Murex (Fusus) Helbling, 1779; Ratifusus Iredale, 1929; Triton (Cumia) Bivona, 1838;

Cumia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colubrariidae.^[1]

Description

Cumia is similar in many respects to species of Metula. The sculpture consists of numerous fine spiral threads and axial growth striae, but it is more discreet than in Metula. The protoconch, however, consists of only 1½ to 2 small, depressed nuclear whorls. The varices are indefinite, flat, and adpressed, and are similar to those in Metula mitrella and Metula mitraeformis. The radula of Cumia differs appreciably from that of Metula.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Cumia include:

Cumia adjuncta (Iredale, 1929)
Cumia alfredensis (Bartsch, 1915)
Cumia antillana (Sarasúa, 1978)
Cumia bednalli (Brazier, 1875)
Cumia brazieri (Angas, 1869)
† Cumia citharella (Tate, 1888)
Cumia clavula Watters, 2009^[3]
Cumia intertexta (Helbling, 1779)
Cumia janlochi (Parth, 1991)
† Cumia leptoskeles (Tate, 1888)
Cumia lucasi (Bozzetti, 2007)
Cumia mestayerae (Iredale, 1915)
Cumia schoutanica (May, 1910)
Cumia simonis (Bozzetti, 2004)
Cumia sunderlandi (Petuch, 1995)
† Cumia tasmanica (R. M. Johnston, 1880)
† Cumia tenuicostata (Tenison Woods, 1879)
Cumia texturata (Tate, 1888)
Cumia turrita (Tate, 1888)

Species brought into synonymy

Cumia decussata Bivona-Bernardi, 1838: synonym of Cumia reticulata (Blainville, 1829)
Cumia reticulata (Blainville, 1829): synonym of Cumia intertexta (Helbling, 1779) (junior homonym, secondary homonym of Colubraria or Cumia reticulata (Blainville, 1829); Fusus mestayerae is a replacement name)

References

^ ^a ^b Cumia Bivona-Bernardi, 1838. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 26 November 2010.
^ Powell, A.W.B. (1971). "Powell". Powell. 6: 152. Retrieved 6 June 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is under a CC BY 4.0 license.
^ Cumia clavula Watters, 2009. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.

Beu A.G. & Maxwell P.A. (1987) A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 54:1-140
Vaught, K.C.; Tucker Abbott, R.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.

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[WoRMS-1] Cumia Bivona-Bernardi, 1838. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 26 November 2010.

[2] Powell, A.W.B. (1971). "Powell". Powell. 6: 152. Retrieved 6 June 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is under a CC BY 4.0 license.

[3] Cumia clavula Watters, 2009. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.

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