Perisserosa guttata

Perisserosa guttata
	Lateral view of a shell of Perisserosa guttata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Perisserosa
Species:	P. guttata
Binomial name
	Perisserosa guttata; Gray, 1825
Synonyms
	Cypraea guttata Gmelin, 1791 (original combination); Erosaria guttata (Gmelin, 1791); Perisserosa brocktoni Iredale, 1930; Perisserosa guttata guttata (Gmelin, 1791) · accepted, alternate representation; Perisserosa guttata var. azumai Schilder, 1960;

Perisserosa guttata, common name the drop-covered cowry, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

Subspecies: Perisserosa guttata surinensis (Raybaudi, 1978)

Shell description

This marine species occurs in the South China Sea; off Japan, the Philippines, Melanesia and Australia (Queensland)

^ Rosenberg, G. (2015). Perisserosa guttata (Gmelin, 1791). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531098 on 2016-10-11

Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp

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