Cymbium olla

Cymbium olla, commonly known as the Algarve volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.^[1] The fermented and dried flesh, called ‘’yeet’’ has a pungent smell, and is used in the Senegalese traditional Thieboudienne.

Cymbium olla
Shell of Cymbium olla
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Cymbium
Species:	C. olla
Binomial name
Cymbium olla (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
Cymbium papillatum Schumacher, 1817 Cymbium philipinum Röding, 1798 Cymbium productum Lowe, 1861 Voluta olla Linnaeus, 1758 Yetus productus (R. T. Lowe, 1861) Yetus productus var. major Pallary, 1930 Yetus productus var. major Pallary, 1930 Yetus turriculatus Pallary, 1930

Description

Distribution

References

1. Cymbium olla (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

• Lowe R.T. (1861). A list of shells observed or collected at Mogador and in its immediate environs, during a few days' visit to the place, in April 1859. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1860: 169-204
• Pallary, P., 1930. Révision du genre Yetus. Annales du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille 22(3): 53–77
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
• Bail, P.; Poppe, G.T. (2001). A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl.

External links

• Syntype at the MNHN, Paris
• Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae
• Schumacher C.F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls.
• Röding P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp