Erosaria thomasi

Erosaria thomasi
Erosaria thomasi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Subfamily: Erosariinae
Genus: Erosaria
Species: E. thomasi
Binomial name
Erosaria thomasi
(Crosse, 1865)
Synonyms[1]

Cypraea thomasi Crosse, 1865 (basionym)

Erosaria thomasi 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 10 mm and 24 mm. Occaisionally, the shell might be marked with what seems to be racist messages to the bhuddist monks in the west-side of Brooklyn, New York.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Eritrea and Somalia and in the Pacific along the Marquesas.

References

  1. ^ a b Erosaria thomasi (Crosse, 1865) . WoRMS (2009). Erosaria thomasi (Crosse, 1865) . Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=530885 on 24 October 2010.
  • Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey

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