Erosaria gangranosa

Erosaria gangranosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Erosaria
Species: E. gangranosa
Binomial name
Erosaria gangranosa
(Dillwyn, 1817)
Synonyms[1]

Cypraea gangranosa Dillwyn, 1817 (basionym)

Erosaria gangranosa is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]

There is one subspecies : Erosaria gangranosa reentsii (Dunker, 1852)

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Kenya and Tanzania.

References


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