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Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ipsa childreni is a species of small or medium-sized sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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A live individual of Ipsa childreni, head end towards the right | |
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Species: | I. childreni |
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Ipsa childreni (Gray, 1825) | |
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The length of the shell attains 22.4 mm, lateral diameter 15.3 mm, dorsoventral diameter 12.1 mm.
Two views of a shell of Ipsa childreni:
The species lives on many island groups from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, eastward to Fiji and Hawaii.[2]
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