Naria nebrites

Erosaria nebrites
	Two views of a shell of Erosaria nebrites, anterior end towards the top
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Erosaria
Species:	E. nebrites
Binomial name
	Erosaria nebrites; (Melvill, 1888)
Synonyms
	Cypraea stellata G.Perry, 1811; Cypraea erosa nebrites Melvill, 1888; Cypraea nebrites Melvill, 1888; Cypraea carmen E.A.Smith, 1912; Cypraea erosa carmen E.A.Smith, 1912; Erosaria mozambicana F.A.Schilder & M.Schilder, 1938; Erosaria ocellata fasciomaculata G.S.Coen, 1949;

Erosaria nebrites, common name the false margined cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

Subspecies and formae

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along East Africa, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Singapore.

^ ^a ^b Erosaria nebrites Melvill. WoRMS (2009). Erosaria nebrites Melvill. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216854 on 20 October 2010 .
^ Gastropods.com : Erosaria nebrites; accessed : 20 October 2010
^ Gastropods.com : Erosaria nebrites ceylonica; accessed : 20 October 2010
^ Gastropods.com : Erosaria nebrites oblonga; accessed : 20 October 2010

Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129-144, 17 pls.

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