Erosaria acicularis

Erosaria acicularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Subfamily: Erosariinae
Genus: Erosaria
Species: E. acicularis
Binomial name
Erosaria acicularis
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cypraea lunata Fischer von Waldheim, G., 1807
  • Erosaria nitidiuscula Coen, G.S., 1949
  • Erosaria nitiduscula Coen, G.S., 1949

Erosaria acicularis, common name the Atlantic yellow cowry, is a species of cowry, a sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[2]

Forms

Although they are of no taxonomic significance, there are two named forms of this species: form algoensis[3] and form sanctaehelenae (Schilder, F.A., 1930),[4]

Distribution

This species occurs on the coasts of North Carolina, USA, the Gulf Of Mexico, the Caribbean, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil.

Description

The maximum recorded adult shell length for this species is 31 mm.[5]

Habitat

The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m; maximum recorded depth is 780 m.[5]

References

  1. Gastropods.com : Erosaria acicularis; accessed : 20 October 2010
  2. Erosaria acicularis (Gmelin, 1791). WoRMS (2010). Erosaria acicularis (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419721 on 20 October 2010.
  3. Gastropods.com : Erosaria acicularis algoensis; accessed : 20 October 2010
  4. Gastropods.com : Erosaria acicularis sanctaehelenae; accessed  : 20 October 2010
  5. 1 2 Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.

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