''Erato prayensis'' is a
species of small
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
marine
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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 Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.
Distribution
It is found in
Cape Verde
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, official_languages = Portuguese
, national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole
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,
West Africa and
Angola.
References
* Liltved W.R. (2000) Cowries and their relatives of southern Africa. A study of the southern African cypraeacean and velutinacean gastropod fauna. Seacomber Publications. 224 pp.
* Fehse D. , 2016. On the Identity of "Erato" prayensis de Rochebrune 1881 and description of new species in the Eratoidae. Conchylia 46(1-4): 25-36
* Ortea J. & Moro L. (2017). La taxonomia grafica aplicada a Erato prayensis Rochebrune, 1881 (Gastropoda: Littorinimorpha) de las islas de Cabo Verde. Avicennia. 20: 53-56.
External links
Rochebrune, A.T. (1882). Diagnoses d'espèces nouvelles pour la faune de l'archipel du Cap-Vert. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. (7) 6: 24-32
Eratoidae
Gastropods of Cape Verde
Gastropods described in 1881
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