Cribrarula gaskoini
| Cribrarula gaskoini | |
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| Cribrarula gaskoini | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Subfamily: | Erroneinae |
| Genus: | Cribrarula |
| Species: | C. gaskoini |
| Binomial name | |
| Cribrarula gaskoini (Reeve, 1846) | |
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Cribrarula gaskoini is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
Description
The shell size varies between 10 mm and 30 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed along Hawaii and the Fiji Islands.
References
- 1 2 Cribrarula gaskoini (Reeve, 1846). WoRMS (2009). Cribrarula gaskoini (Reeve, 1846). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=529735 on 14 October 2010.
- Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey
- Schilder, M. and Schilder, F. A. 1971. A Catalogue of Living and Fossil Cowries. Taxonomy and Bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea (Gastropoda Prosobranchia). Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Mémoires, Deuxième Série, Fasc. 85: 246 pp. page(s): 56
- Lorenz & Hubert (2000). A guide to worldwide cowries. ConchBooks 1-584 page(s): 182
- Lorenz F. (2002) New worldwide cowries. Descriptions of new taxa and revisions of selected groups of living Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur-Cismar 20: 1-292, pls 1-40. page(s): 267
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