Bistolida ursellus

Bistolida ursellus
Bistolida ursellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Subfamily: Erroneinae
Genus: Bistolida
Species: B. ursellus
Binomial name
Bistolida ursellus
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cypraea ursellus Gmelin, 1791 (basionym)
  • Cypraea coffea Sowerby, G.B. III, 1870

Bistolida ursellus is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]

Contents

Subspecies and formae

  • Bistolida ursellus amoeba (Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938) [2]

Description

Distribution

This species is found in the seas along the New Hebrides.

References

  1. ^ a b Bistolida ursellus (Gmelin, 1791). WoRMS (2009). Bistolida ursellus (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=530879 on 9 October 2010.
  2. ^ Gastropods.com : Bistolida ursellus amoeba; accessed : 29 October 2010

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