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Cypraeidae

60 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Littorinimorpha › Cypraeidae

Lyncina leviathan is a species of cowry found across parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, living from shallow water down to 40 metres depth.

Arestorides argus, the eyed cowry, is a large cowry species with ringed shells found across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Luria cinerea (Gmelin, 1791) is a species with maximum shell length 45 mm, found from the US Southeast to Brazil from 0 to 1472 m depth.

Luria lurida is a common cowrie species found across parts of the Mediterranean and Atlantic, feeding nocturnally on sponges.

Luria isabella is a very common cowrie species found across the Indo-Pacific, with distinct shell and body features.

Talparia talpa is an uncommon species of cowry found in warm Indo-Pacific shallow tropical waters, with fossils recorded in Guam.

Notocypraea piperita is a small cowry species found in seas off southern Australia and northern Tasmania, living subtidally on rocks.

Notocypraea angustata is a species of cowry sea snail found in seas off southern Australia.

Neobernaya spadicea, the chestnut cowrie, is the only cowrie species in the eastern Pacific Ocean, ranging from California to Baja California.

Pseudozonaria annettae is a species that grows 20–50 mm long and lives along the coasts of Western North America and Peru.

Pseudozonaria arabicula is a Pacific marine species with a characteristic spotted shell, found from Baja California to Peru.

Zoila thersites is a rare endemic Southern Australian cowrie that feeds on small marine organisms at dawn and dusk.

Related Families

Littorinidae 43 species Naticidae 25 species Strombidae 20 species Calyptraeidae 17 species Cymatiidae 15 species Cassidae 14 species Ovulidae 12 species Tonnidae 7 species

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