Cribrarula esontropia

Cribrarula esontropia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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)

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

Subspecies

There are three subspecies recognized :[1]

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

Description

Shell size 25 mm.

Distribution

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

References

  1. ^ a b c 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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