Erronea errones
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Erronea |
| Species: | E. errones
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| Erronea errones | |
Erronea errones, the wandering cowry or erroneous cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
Description
[edit | edit source]These very common shells reach on average 20–28 millimetres (0.79–1.10 in) of length, with a maximum size of 45 millimetres (1.8 in) and a minimum size of 13 millimetres (0.51 in). The dorsum is usually pale brown or greenish, with very variable patterns of darker greenish trasversal bands or spots. The base and the teeth of the aperture are white. In the living cowries the papillose greenish mantle grants the camouflage.
Distribution
[edit | edit source]This species is distributed in the East Indian Ocean along South India, Andaman Islands, Madagascar and Tanzania, as well in West Pacific Ocean along Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, New Caledonia, Samoa and Australia.
Habitat
[edit | edit source]These cowries live in shallow tropical waters at low tide, usually under rocks or stones, feeding on algae.
Synonyms
[edit | edit source]- Cypraea errones, Linnaeus, 1758
- Cypraea oblonga, Gmelin, J.F., 1791
- Cypraea bimaculata, (Gray 1824)
- Cypraea coxi, (Brazier 1872)
- Cypraea pusilla, Gmelin, J.F., 1791
- Cypraea coerulescens, Schroter, J.S., 1804 : E Australia
- Cypraea ovum, Kiener, L.C., 1843
- Cypraea chrysophaea, Melvill, J.C., 1888
- Cypraea compressa, Dautzenberg, Ph., 1903
- Erronea nimiproba, Iredale, T., 1935
- Cypraea nimiserrans, Iredale, T., 1935
- Cypraea magerrones, Iredale, T., 1939 : E Australia
- Cypraea proba, Iredale, T., 1939 : W Australia
- Erronea kalavo, Steadman, W.R. & B.C. Cotton, 1943
- Erronea vivili, Steadman, W.R. & B.C. Cotton, 1943
- Palmadusta asellus fusca (f), Coen, G.S., 1949
- Erronea fusca, Coen, G.S., 1949
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Erronea errones (Linnaeus). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- Verdcourt, B. (1959). The cowries of the East African Coast: Supplement II. JEANHS XXIII (100): 130-134
- Natarajan, A V (1954) - On the breeding habits of the Cowry Erronea errones (Linne) - Current Science, 23 (7). pp. 225–226
External links
[edit | edit source]- Biolib
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