Erosaria

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Kingdom Animalia Family Cypraeidae Scientific name Erosaria Higher classification Erosariinae		Superfamily Cypraeoidea Subfamily Erosariinae Phylum Mollusca Rank Genus

Similar Cypraeidae, Erosaria spurca, Erosaria erosa, Gastropods, Erosaria helvola

Cowry erosaria spurca linnaeus 1758 saronic bay island aegina george moraitis

Erosaria is a genus of sea snails, cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Species within the genus Erosaria include:

Erosaria acicularis (Gmelin, 1791) - the Atlantic yellow cowry

Erosaria albuginosa (Gray, 1825)

Erosaria beckii (Gaskoin, 1836)

Erosaria bellatrix Lorenz, 2009

Erosaria bernardi (Richard, 1974)

Erosaria boivinii (Kiener, 1843)

Erosaria cernica (Sowerby, 1870)

Erosaria citrina (Gray, 1825)

Erosaria eburnea Barnes, 1924

Erosaria englerti (Summers & Burgess, 1965)

Erosaria erosa (Linnaeus, 1758), the type species

Erosaria gangranosa (Dill.)

Erosaria helvola (Linnaeus)

Erosaria irrorata (Gray, 1828)

Erosaria labrolineata (Gaskoin, 1849)

Erosaria lamarckii (Gray, 1825)

Erosaria macandrewi (Sowerby, 1870)

Erosaria marginalis Dillwyn

Erosaria miliaris (Gmelin, 1791)

Erosaria nebrites Melvill

Erosaria ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Erosaria ostergaardi (Dall, 1921)

Erosaria poraria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Erosaria sinensis Ma, 1997

Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Erosaria sublitorea Lorenz, 1997

Erosaria thomasi (Crosse, 1865)

Erosaria turdus (Lamarck, 1810)

Species brought into synonymy

Erosaria caputserpentis: synonym of Monetaria caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Erosaria guttata (Gmelin, 1791) : synonym of Perisserosa guttata (Gmelin, 1791)

Erosaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758) : synonym of Nucleolaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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