Cribrarula esontropia
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Cypraeidae |
Genus: | Cribrarula |
Species: | C. esontropia
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Binomial name | |
Cribrarula esontropia (Duclos, 1833)
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Cribrarula esontropia is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
Subspecies
[edit]There are three subspecies recognized :[1]
- Cribrarula esontropia cribellum (Gaskoin, 1849)
- Cribrarula esontropia esontropia (Duclos, 1833)
- Cribrarula esontropia francescoi (Lorenz, 2002)
Description
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Distribution
[edit]This species is found in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Cribrarula esontropia. WoRMS (2009). Cribrarula esontropia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 October 2010 .
- Lorenz, F., 2002. New worldwide cowries. Descriptions of new taxa and revisions of selected groups of living Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Schriften zur Malakozoologie 20: 292 pp
External links
[edit] Media related to Cribrarula esontropia at Wikimedia Commons