Blasicrura pallidula

Little pallid cowry
	Shell of Blasicrura pallidula from Philippines at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Blasicrura
Species:	B. pallidula
Binomial name
	Blasicrura pallidula; (Gaskoin, 1849)
Synonyms
	Cypraea pallidula (Gaskoin, 1849); Cypraea quadrimaculata var. pallidula Gaskoin, 1849;

Blasicrura pallidula, common name the little pallid cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Subspecies

Blasicrura pallidula luchuana Kuroda, 1960
Blasicrura pallidula pallidula (Gaskoin, 1849-a)
Blasicrura pallidula rhinoceros (Souverbie, 1865)
Blasicrura pallidula vivia Steadmand and Cotton, 1943

Description

Blasicrura pallidula has a shell reaching a size of 11 – 32 mm. It is oval, the dorsum surface is usually pale brown, while the base is white. In the living cowries the mantle has a blackish coloration.