Definition of Family Cymatiidae

1. Noun. Tritons.

Exact synonyms: Cymatiidae
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Class Gasteropoda, Class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda
Member holonyms: Triton

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Cymatiidae

family Cruciferae
family Cryptobranchidae
family Cryptocercidae
family Cryptogrammataceae
family Ctenizidae
family Cuculidae
family Cucurbitaceae
family Culicidae
family Cunoniaceae
family Cupressaceae
family Curculionidae
family Cuterebridae
family Cyatheaceae
family Cycadaceae
family Cyclopteridae
family Cymatiidae (current term)
family Cynipidae
family Cynocephalidae
family Cynoglossidae
family Cyperaceae
family Cypraeidae
family Cyprinidae
family Cyprinodontidae
family Cyrilliaceae
family Dacninae
family Dacrymycetaceae
family Dactylopiidae
family Dactylopteridae
family Dactyloscopidae
family Danaidae

Literary usage of Family Cymatiidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report on the Turton Collection of South African Marine Mollusks: With by Paul Bartsch (1915)
"... USNM, contains two young specimens from the same locality (Coll. No. 1424). Family CYMATIIDAE. Genus BURSA Bollen. ..."

2. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"... this immature shell suggests that it belongs to the family Cymatiidae, there is little that can be said about its specific identity until more examples ..."

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