Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Cypraeidae Scientific name Lyncina camelopardalis | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Cypraeoidea Genus Lyncina Rank Species | |
Similar Luria pulchra, Lyncina, Trona stercoraria, Lyncina ventriculus, Pseudozonaria annettae | ||
Lyncina camelopardalis, common name the camel cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
There is one subspecies : Lyncina camelopardalis sharmiensis Heiman & Mienis, 1999
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian ocean along Eritrea, Somalia and Madagascar.
References
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