Margovula marginata

Margovula marginata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Ovulidae
Subfamily: Prionovolvinae
Genus: Margovula
Species: M. marginata
Binomial name
Margovula marginata
(G.B. Sowerby I, 1828)
Synonyms[1]
  • Margovula schilderorum Cate, C.N., 1973
  • Ovula adamsi Paetel, F., 1887
  • Ovulum marginatum G.B. Sowerby I, 1828
  • Ovulum sinensis G.B. Sowerby III, 1874
  • Pseudosimnia marginata G.B. Sowerby I, 1828

Margovula marginata, common name the Chinese egg shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 8 mm and 30 mm. The shell is rather thin, semitransparent, white, and encircled with an orange line at the margin. It is very obscurely decussated. Its interior is milkwhite. The length of the shell varies between 21 mm and 30 mm. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the demersal zone of the Red Sea and in the Central Indo-West Pacific off the Philippines and China.

References

  1. 1 2 Margovula marginata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1828). WoRMS (2009). Margovula marginata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430603 on 5 June 2010.
  2. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology VII, p. 246; 1885

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