Erosaria citrina
Erosaria citrina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
Family: | Cypraeidae |
Genus: | Erosaria |
Species: | E. citrina |
Binomial name | |
Erosaria citrina (Gray, 1825) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Cypraea citrina Gray, 1825 |
Erosaria citrina, common name the orange cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
Subspecies
- Erosaria citrina citrina Gray, 1825
- Erosaria citrina dauphinensis Lorenz, 2002
Distribution
This species and its subspecies are distributed in the Insian Ocean along the East Coast of South Africa, Madagascar and Mozambique.
References
- 1 2 Erosaria citrina (Gray, 1825). WoRMS (2009). Erosaria citrina (Gray, 1825). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=390552 on 28 October 2010.
External links
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