''Cribrarula esontropia'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a
cowry, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Subspecies
There are three subspecies recognized :
*''Cribrarula esontropia cribellum''
(Gaskoin, 1849)
*''Cribrarula esontropia esontropia''
(Duclos, 1833)
*''Cribrarula esontropia francescoi''
(Lorenz, 2002)
Description
Distribution
This species is found in the Indian Ocean off
Mauritius and the
Mascarene Basin.
References
* Lorenz, F., 2002. New worldwide cowries. Descriptions of new taxa and revisions of selected groups of living Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Schriften zur Malakozoologie 20: 292 pp
External links
Cypraeidae
Gastropods described in 1833
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