Crenavolva traillii

Traill's ovulid
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Ovulidae
Genus:	Crenavolva
Species:	C. traillii
Binomial name
Crenavolva traillii (A. Adams, 1855)
Synonyms [1]
Amphiperas traillii(A. Adams, 1855) Crenavolva striatula trailli(A. Adams, 1855) Crenavolva traillii hesperiaCate, 1973 Ovula dentata Angas, 1887 Primovula formosa Schilder, 1941

Crenavolva traillii, common name Traill's ovulid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries. ^[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 5 mm and 15 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan, in the Indo-Pacific and off Australia (Queensland).

References

1. Crenavolva traillii (A. Adams, 1855) . WoRMS (2009). Crenavolva traillii (A. Adams, 1855). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430691 on 5 June 2010 .

• Adams, A. 1855. Description of thirty-nine new species of shells, from the collection of Hugh Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1854(22): 130–138, pl. 28
• Schilder, F.A. 1941. Verwandtschaft und Verbreitung der Cypraeacea. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 73(2–3): 57–120, pl. 8-9
• Cate, C.N. 1973. A systematic revision of the Recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger supplement 15: 1–116
• Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
• Fehse, D. 2002. Contribution to the knowledge of the Ovulidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). X. The genus Crenavolva Cate, 1973. La Conchiglia 34(303): 23–55
• Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.

External links

• "Crenavolva traillii". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.