Bistolida hirundo

Bistolida hirundo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Bistolida
Species: B. hirundo
Binomial name
Bistolida hirundo
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Blasicrura hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cypraea hirundo Linnaeus, 1758

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

Subspecies

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea$ and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, RĂ©union, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.

References

  1. 1 2 Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus). WoRMS (2009). Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597174 on 23 December 2012.

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