Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Cypraeidae Scientific name Erosaria citrina | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Cypraeoidea Genus Erosaria Rank Species | |
Similar Erosaria ocellata, Erosaria lamarckii, Erosaria albuginosa, Erosaria nebrites, Notocypraea angustata | ||
Erosaria citrina, common name the orange cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
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Distribution
This species and its subspecies are distributed in the Insian Ocean along the East Coast of South Africa, Madagascar and Mozambique.
References
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