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Nucleolaria nucleus
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Nucleolaria nucleus, the wrinkled cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Cypraeidae |
Genus: | Nucleolaria |
Species: | N. nucleus |
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There is one subspecies: Staphylaea nucleus madagascariensis (Gmelin, 1791) (synonym : Cypraea madagascariensis Gmelin, 1791) (common name: the wrinkled cowrie). This subspecies is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Kenya, Madagascar and Tanzania.