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Cymbiola complexa
	Shell of Cymbiola complexa (specimen at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Cymbiola
Species:	C. complexa
Binomial name
	Cymbiola complexa; Iredale, 1924
Synonyms
	Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) complexa Iredale, 1924 alternative representation; Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) pulchra complexa Iredale, 1924; Cymbiola pulchra complexa Iredale, 1924; Cymbiolacca complexa (Iredale, 1924) ·; Voluta punctata Swainson, 1823 (invalid: junior homonym of Voluta punctata T. Brown, 1818; Cymbiola complexa is a replacement name);

Cymbiola complexa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 61 mm.

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales and Queensland

Swainson, W. 1823. Zoological Illustrations; or Original Figures and Descriptions of new, rare, or interesting Animals, selected chiefly from the classes of Ornithology, Entomology, and Conchology, and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists. London : Baldwin, Cradock & Joy Vol. 1 ix 75 pp., pls 1-66, Vol. 2-63 pp., pl. 67, Vol. 3 x 71 pp. [published between 1820 and 1823].
Bail, P. & Limpus, A. 1998. The "pulchra complex": revision of Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) from East Australian Coast. Rome : Evolver 80 pp.
Beechey, D.L. 2005. Cymbiola pulchra in NSW. Australian Shell News 125: 7–8
Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1–375.

Iredale, T. (1924). "Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 49 (3): 258. Retrieved 7 February 2026.