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.

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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