About Staphylaea limacina (Lamarck, 1810)
Staphylaea limacina (Lamarck, 1810) has a shell that ranges in size from 8 mm to 39 mm. The shell itself is oval in shape. Its dorsum surface is typically pale brown or pinkish, marked with whitish spots or small round whitish protuberances, and has two orange-brown areas at its two ends. The base of the shell is white. In living cowries of this species, the mantle can be brown, orange, or reddish, and has paler finger-like projections. This species is distributed in Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Indian Ocean, where it can be found along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, and Tanzania.
