Erosaria gangranosa

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)

Contents

Description

Distribution

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

References

  1. ^ a b Erosaria gangranosa (Dill.).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216856.
  • 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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