Bistolida hirundo

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Bistolida hirundo
Bistolida hirundo (MNHN-IM-2000-9966).jpeg
Shell of Bistolida hirundo (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Bistolida
Species:
B. hirundo
Binomial name
Bistolida hirundo
Synonyms [1]
  • Bistolida hirundo hirundo(Linnaeus, 1758)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Blasicrura hirundo(Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cypraea hirundoLinnaeus, 1758
  • Cypraea hirundo var. formosaGray, 1824
  • Cypraea parvulaPhilippi, 1849 (junior synonym)
  • Evenaria hirundo(Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Evenaria hirundo cameroni Iredale, 1939

Bistolida hirundo is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. [1]

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Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.

References

  1. 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 .