Erosaria gangranosa
Erosaria gangranosa | |
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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. 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
- 1 2 Erosaria gangranosa (Dill.). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- 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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