Cribrarula garciai

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Cribrarula garciai
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Cribrarula
Species:
C. garciai
Binomial name
Cribrarula garciai
Lorenz & Raines, 2001 [1]

Cribrarula garciai is a species of sea snails, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. [2]

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Description

Cribarula garciai has a leopard print arrangement of colored spots on the dorsal face of the shell, which grows to around 25 mm. The spots become white on the dorsum while the background becomes brown. The leopard spots begin to fade on the ventral face of the shell.

Distribution

Easter Island (Rapa Nui, Chile)

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References

  1. Lorenz & Raines (2001). La Conchiglia 33 (299) : 27–29. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 5 June 2010.
  2. Cribrarula garciai Lorenz & Raines, 2001 . WoRMS (2010). Cribrarula garciai Lorenz & Raines, 2001. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=457766 on 5 June 2010 .