Lyncina camelopardalis | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Cypraeidae |
Genus: | Lyncina |
Species: | L. camelopardalis
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Binomial name | |
Lyncina camelopardalis (
Perry, 1811)
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Synonyms | |
Lyncina camelopardalis, common name the camel cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. [1]
There is one subspecies : Lyncina camelopardalis sharmiensis Heiman & Mienis, 1999
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Eritrea, Somalia and Madagascar.