Erronea pallida

Erronea pallida
	Shell of Erronea pallida from India at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Erronea
Species:	E. pallida
Binomial name
	Erronea pallida; (Gray, 1824)
Synonyms
	Cypraea pallida Gray, 1824; Erronea gilva Sulliotti, G.R., 1924;

Erronea pallida, common name pale cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 13 mm and 34 mm. The dorsum surface is usually pale brown or greyish, with a darker brown area in the middle, while the base is whitish. It can be found under rocks in turbid or muddy waters at intertidal depth.

Distribution

This species is distributed along the Gulf of Oman, the Philippines and in the Indian Ocean along Kenya.

References

^ ^a ^b Erronea pallida. WoRMS (2009). Erronea pallida. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=529743 on 21 October 2010 .

External links

Encyclopedia of Life
"Erronea pallida". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
OBIS

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[WoRMS-1] Erronea pallida. WoRMS (2009). Erronea pallida. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=529743 on 21 October 2010 .

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