Erosaria citrina

Erosaria citrina
Erosaria citrina
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]

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Subspecies

  • Erosaria citrina citrina Gray, 1825
  • Erosaria citrina dauphinensis Lorenz, 2002

Description

Distribution

This species and its subspecies are distributed in the Insian Ocean along the East Coast of South Africa, Madagascar and Mozambique.

References

  1. ^ a b 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.

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