Ficadusta pulchella

Ficadusta pulchella
Shell of Ficadusta pulchella aliguayensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Ficadusta
Species:	F. pulchella
Binomial name
Ficadusta pulchella (Swainson, 1823)
Synonyms [1]
Adusta pulchella(Swainson, 1823) Contradusta pulchella(Swainson, 1823) Contradusta pulchella pulchella(Swainson, 1823) Cypraea pulchella(Swainson, 1823) Erronea pulchella(Swainson, 1823) Erronea pulchella pulchella(Swainson, 1823) Ficadusta pulchella pulchella(Swainson, 1823)· accepted, alternate representation

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

Subspecies

• Ficadusta pulchella aliguayensis(van Heesvelde & Deprez, 2002)
• Ficadusta pulchella novaebritanniae(F. A. Schilder & M. Schilder, 1937)
• Ficadusta pulchella pericalles(Melvill & Standen, 1904)

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ficadusta pulchella (Swainson, 1823). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=709397 on 23 November 2020

• Orr J. (1985). Hong Kong seashells. The Urban Council, Hong Kong
• Heesvelde van, J. & Deprez, J., 2002. A new subspecies of Erronea pulchella Swainson, 1823 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). La Conchiglia 301: 41–47