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Erosaria gangranosa

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Cypraeidae

Scientific name
  
Erosaria gangranosa

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Cypraeoidea

Genus
  
Erosaria

Rank
  
Species

Similar
  
Pseudozonaria arabicula, Erosaria helvola, Erosaria ocellata, Erosaria nebrites, Erosaria lamarckii

Erosaria gangranosa is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

There is one subspecies : Erosaria gangranosa reentsii (Dunker, 1852)

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Kenya and Tanzania.

References

Erosaria gangranosa Wikipedia