About Staphylaea staphylaea (Linnaeus, 1758)
The shell of Staphylaea staphylaea grows between 7 and 29 mm in size. It has an oval shape; the dorsum surface is pale greyish, with a thin longitudinal line running down its middle, many small round protuberances, and two brown areas at the shell's extremities. The base of the shell is pale brown, and small teeth extend across both sides of the entire base. In living cowries of this species, the transparent mantle is orange, with long finger-like projections. This species is distributed in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean (along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, the East Coast of South Africa, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia, South Mozambique, and Tanzania), as well as in Polynesia, Australia, and Vanuatu.
