Erosaria nebrites
Erosaria nebrites | |
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Two views of a shell of Erosaria nebrites, anterior end towards the top | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
Family: | Cypraeidae |
Genus: | Erosaria |
Species: | E. nebrites |
Binomial name | |
Erosaria nebrites (Melvill, 1888) | |
Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Erosaria nebrites, common name the false margined cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
Subspecies and formae
- Erosaria nebrites ceylonica (f) Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938 [3]
- Erosaria nebrites oblonga (f) Melvill, J.C., 1888 [4]
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along East Africa, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Singapore.
References
- 1 2 Erosaria nebrites Melvill. WoRMS (2009). Erosaria nebrites Melvill. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216854 on 20 October 2010.
- ↑ Gastropods.com : Erosaria nebrites; accessed : 20 October 2010
- ↑ Gastropods.com : Erosaria nebrites ceylonica; accessed : 20 October 2010
- ↑ Gastropods.com : Erosaria nebrites oblonga; accessed : 20 October 2010
- Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129-144, 17 pls.
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