Cribrarula gaskoini

Cribrarula gaskoini is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]

Cribrarula gaskoini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Cypraeoidea
Family:
Cypraeidae
Subfamily:
Erroneinae
Genus:
Cribrarula
Species:
C. gaskoini
Binomial name
Cribrarula gaskoini
(Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cypraea gaskoini Reeve, 1846
  • Cypraea peasei Sowerby III, 1870
  • Cribrarula gaskoinii (Reeve, 1846)
  • Cribrarula pellucida Taylor, 1916

Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 30 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed along Hawaii and the Fiji Islands.

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References
  1. Cribrarula gaskoini (Reeve, 1846). WoRMS (2009). Cribrarula gaskoini (Reeve, 1846). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=529735 on 14 October 2010 .
  • Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey
  • Schilder, M. and Schilder, F. A. 1971. A Catalogue of Living and Fossil Cowries. Taxonomy and Bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea (Gastropoda Prosobranchia). Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Mémoires, Deuxième Série, Fasc. 85: 246 pp. page(s): 56
  • Lorenz & Hubert (2000). A guide to worldwide cowries. ConchBooks 1–584 page(s): 182
  • Lorenz F. (2002) New worldwide cowries. Descriptions of new taxa and revisions of selected groups of living Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur-Cismar 20: 1–292, pls 1–40. page(s): 267
  • "Cribrarula gaskoinii". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 7 November 2010.


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