Sinum
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Sinum is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Sininae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]
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Sinum | |
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Five views of a shell of Sinum cymba | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Naticoidea |
Family: | Naticidae |
Genus: | Sinum Röding, 1798 |
Type species | |
Helix haliotoidea Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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Most naticids have shells that are globular, but the shell of species in the genus Sinum is flattened to some extent, some being so flattened that they are ear-shaped.