Macrocypraea
Genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Macrocypraea is a genus of large sea snails, cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[2]
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Macrocypraea | |
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A shell of Macrocypraea cervinetta from Panama, dorsal view, anterior end towards the right | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Cypraeidae |
Genus: | Macrocypraea Schilder, 1930 |
Type species | |
Cypraea exanthema Linnaeus, 1767[1] | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Macrocypraea (Lorenzicypraea) Petuch & Drolshagen, 2011· accepted, alternate representation |
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