Cumia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colubrariidae.
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.
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 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
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. . XII, 195 pp.
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Bivona-Bernardi And., 1838. Generi e specie di molluschi descritti dal Barone Antonio Bivona e Bernardi. Lavori postumi pubblicati dal figlio Andrea dottore in medicina con note ed aggiunte. Giornale di Scienze Lettere e Arti per la Sicilia 61: 211-227 ICZN 1993. Opinion 1765. Fusus Helbling, 1779 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): suppressed, and Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815 and Colubraria Schumacher, 1817: conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 51(2): 159-161