dog-rose cowrie

Mauritia eglantina

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cypraeidae

Mauritia eglantina, the 'dog-rose cowry' or 'eglantine cowry', is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. Subspecies Mauritia eglantina huberi Thach, 2018 Description These quite common shells reach on average 44–52 millimetres (1. 7–2.

Distribution

dog-rose cowrie — (c) Donald Davesne, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

France · 61

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Donald Davesne, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionMauritia eglantina, Wikipedia contributors

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