Spotted Cowrie

Naria spurca spurca

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cypraeidae

Naria spurca, common name the dirty cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. Description The shells of these very common cowries reach on average 23–28 millimetres (0. 91–1.

Distribution

Spotted Cowrie — (c) Michael Bommerer, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Michael Bommerer · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Spain · 64Italy · 36France · 24

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Michael Bommerer, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Michael Bommerer · CC-BY DescriptionNaria spurca, Wikipedia contributors

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