Ipsa childreni

Ipsa childreni
A live individual of Ipsa childreni, head end towards the right
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Ipsa
Species: I. childreni
Binomial name
Ipsa childreni
Gray, 1825

Ipsa childreni is a species of small or medium-sized sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Shell description

Two views of a shell of Ipsa childreni:

References

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