Cribrarula gaskoini

Cribrarula gaskoini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Subfamily:	Erroneinae
Genus:	Cribrarula
Species:	C. gaskoini
Binomial name
	Cribrarula gaskoini; (Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms
	Cypraea gaskoini Reeve, 1846; Cypraea peasei Sowerby, G.B. III, 1870; Cribrarula gaskoinii (Reeve, 1846); Cribrarula pellucida Taylor, 1916;

Cribrarula gaskoini 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 10 mm and 30 mm

This species is distributed along Hawaii and the Fiji Islands.

^ ^a ^b Cribrarula gaskoini (Reeve, 1846). WoRMS (2009). Cribrarula gaskoini (Reeve, 1846). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=529735 on 14 October 2010 .

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Lorenz & Hubert (2000). A guide to worldwide cowries. ConchBooks 1-584 page(s): 182
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