Bistolida hirundo
Bistolida hirundo | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
Family: | Cypraeidae |
Genus: | Bistolida |
Species: | B. hirundo |
Binomial name | |
Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Bistolida hirundo is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
Subspecies
- 'Bistolida hirundo francisca (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
- Bistolida hirundo hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Bistolida hirundo neglecta (Sowerby I, 1837) (species inquirenda)
- Bistolida hirundo rouxi (Ancey, 1882) (species inquirenda)
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea$ and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, RĂ©union, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.
References
- 1 2 Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus). WoRMS (2009). Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597174 on 23 December 2012.
- Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129-144, 17 pls.
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