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Arestorides argus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Cypraeoidea

Genus
  
Arestorides

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Cypraeidae

Scientific name
  
Arestorides argus

Rank
  
Species

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Similar
  
Lyncina carneola, Lyncina, Mauritia mauritiana, Mauritia histrio, Chelycypraea testudinaria

Arestorides argus, common name : the eyed cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

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Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized :

  • Arestorides argus argus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Arestorides argus contracasta Lorenz, 2012
  • Arestorides argus contrastriata (Perry, 1811) : common name : pheasant cowrie: synonym of Cypraea contrastriata Perry, 1811

    • Distribution

    This species and its subspecies are distributed in the seas off Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.

    References

    Arestorides argus Wikipedia
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