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Species: | C. macumba
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Cyphoma macumba Petuch, 1979
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Cyphoma macumba is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries. [1]
This species has become an (uncertain) synonym of Cyphoma gibbosum ( Linnaeus, 1758) [2]
Endemic to Brazil - from Ceará to Rio de Janeiro State (belonged to the Bahian Subprovince, including Abrolhos archipelago, according to Petuchi, 2013).
The maximum recorded shell length is 32.5 mm. [3]
Minimum recorded depth is 2 m. [3] Maximum recorded depth is 10 m. [3]