Cribrarula esontropia

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

Cribrarula esontropia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Cribrarula
Species:
C. esontropia
Binomial name
Cribrarula esontropia
(Duclos, 1833)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cypraea esontropia Duclos, 1833 (basionym)

Subspecies

There are three subspecies recognized :[1]

  • Cribrarula esontropia cribellum (Gaskoin, 1849)
  • Cribrarula esontropia esontropia (Duclos, 1833)
  • Cribrarula esontropia francescoi (Lorenz, 2002)

Description

Distribution

This species is found in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin.

References
  1. Cribrarula esontropia. WoRMS (2009). Cribrarula esontropia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 October 2010 .
  • Lorenz, F., 2002. New worldwide cowries. Descriptions of new taxa and revisions of selected groups of living Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Schriften zur Malakozoologie 20: 292 pp

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