- Pseudozonaria arabicula
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Pseudozonaria arabicula Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade LittorinimorphaSuperfamily: Cypraeoidea Family: Cypraeidae Genus: Pseudozonaria Species: P. arabicula Binomial name Pseudozonaria arabicula
(Lamarck, 1811)Synonyms[1] - Cypraea arabicula Lamarck, 1811 (basionym)
- Cypraea gemmula Weinkauff, H.C., 1881
Pseudozonaria arabicula, common name : the little Arabian cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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Description
The shell size varies between 13 mm and 37 mm
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along Kenya and in the Pacific Ocean along the Galapagos Islands and from Baja California to Peru.
References
- ^ a b Pseudozonaria arabicula . WoRMS (2009). Pseudozonaria arabicula. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527792 on 24 January 2011.
- Copley, H. (1945). List of cowries collected on the Kenyan coast by Colonel Maxwell and friends during July, 1944. JEANHS XVII (83&84): 160.
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