Crenavolva traillii

Traill's ovulid
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Ovulidae
Subfamily:	Prionovolvinae
Genus:	Crenavolva
Species:	C. traillii
Binomial name
	Crenavolva traillii; (A. Adams, 1855)
Synonyms
	Amphiperas traillii (A. Adams, 1855); Crenavolva striatula trailli (A. Adams, 1855); Crenavolva traillii hesperia Cate, 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.

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

^ ^a ^b 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.

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