Above: a specimen pictured by night near Saména cove, south of Marseille, Provence, S. France. Original pictures provided by S. Le Bris for iNaturalist – (CC BY-NC).
| Cymbulia peronii Blainville, 1818 |
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| Atlantic, including Caribbean and Mediterranean; Indian Ocean, central Pacific… Feeding on plancton from the surface down to circa 2000m deep. Synonyms: borealis, proboscidea, quadripunctata. The size can reach 60-65mm. Above: a specimen pictured by night near Saména cove, south of Marseille, Provence, S. France. Original pictures provided by S. Le Bris for iNaturalist – (CC BY-NC). |
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| Cymbulia proboscidea by Lamarck in Bruguière, B. de Saint-Vincent & Müller: Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature : Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers tome III, Paris 1827, plate 464. |
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| The skeleton of C. peronii in Cuvier & al.: Règne animal distribué d’après son organisation tome 5 part 1, Paris 1836-1849, plate 16, fig.1. Left: top view, right: side view. |
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| Dried specimen, washed ashore after storm, La Herradura, Granada, Andalucia, S. Spain: top view, side view. 40mm. |
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| Two of the five serrated ridges of the skeleton. |
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