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| name = ''Pseudozonaria arabicula''
| image = Cypraeidae - Pseudozonaria arabicula.JPG
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| image_caption = Shell of ''Pseudozonaria arabicula'' from [[Panama]] at the [[Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano]]
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| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| genus = Pseudozonaria
| phylum = [[Mollusca]]
| species = arabicula
| authority = ([[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck|Lamarck]], 1811)
| classis = [[Gastropoda]]
| unranked_familia = clade [[Caenogastropoda]]<br />clade [[Hypsogastropoda]]<br/>clade [[Littorinimorpha]]
| superfamilia = [[Cypraeoidea]]
| familia = [[Cypraeidae]]
| subfamilia =
| genus = ''[[Pseudozonaria]]''
| subgenus =
| species = '''''P. arabicula'''''
| binomial = ''Pseudozonaria arabicula''
| binomial_authority = (Lamarck, 1811)
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" />
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" />
| synonyms = *''Cypraea arabicula'' <small>[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck|Lamarck]], 1811</small> ([[basionym]])
| synonyms =
*''Cypraea gemmula'' <small>[[Heinrich Conrad Weinkauff|Weinkauff]], 1881</small>
* ''Cypraea arabicula'' Lamarck, 1811 ([[basionym]])
* ''Cypraea gemmula'' Weinkauff, H.C., 1881
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'''''Pseudozonaria arabicula''''', common name : the '''little Arabian cowry''', is a [[species]] of [[sea snail]], a [[cowry]], a marine [[gastropod]] [[mollusk]] in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Cypraeidae]], the cowries.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|527792 |''Pseudozonaria arabicula'' |||WoRMS (2009). Pseudozonaria arabicula. Accessed through the [[World Register of Marine Species]] at <nowiki>http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527792 </nowiki> on 24 January 2011}}</ref>
'''''Pseudozonaria arabicula''''', common name : the '''little Arabian cowry''', is a [[species]] of [[sea snail]], a [[cowry]], a marine [[gastropod]] [[mollusk]] in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Cypraeidae]], the cowries.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|527792 |''Pseudozonaria arabicula'' |||WoRMS (2009). Pseudozonaria arabicula. Accessed through the [[World Register of Marine Species]] at <nowiki>http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527792 </nowiki> on 24 January 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Pseudozonaria arabicula (Lamarck 1810) - Encyclopedia of Life|url=https://eol.org/pages/475272|access-date=2022-01-12|website=eol.org}}</ref>


==Description==
==Description==
The shell size varies between 13 mm and 37 mm
The shell size varies between 13&nbsp;mm and 37&nbsp;mm. The dorsum surface is usually dark brown or greyish, while the base is whitish or pale brown, with large dark brown or blackish spots on the ventral margin.
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==Distribution==
==Distribution==
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean along the [[Galapagos]] Islands and from [[Baja California]] to [[Peru]].<ref name="WoRMS" /><ref name="hardy">{{Gastropods.com|key=8|id=508|title=''Pseudozonaria arabicula''|access-date=24 January 2011}}</ref> A record of this species from [[Kenya]]<ref name="copley">Copley, H. (1945). List of cowries collected on the Kenyan coast by Colonel Maxwell and friends during July 1944. JEANHS XVII (83&84): 160.</ref> likely stems from a confusion with ''[[Mauritia arabica]]'' (syn. ''Cypraea arabica'').
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along [[Kenya]] and in the Pacific Ocean along the [[Galapagos]] Islands and from [[Baja California]] to [[Peru]].


==References==
==References==
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* Copley, H. (1945). ''List of cowries collected on the Kenyan coast by Colonel Maxwell and friends during July, 1944''. JEANHS XVII (83&84): 160.


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/arabicula.htm Flmnh]
* [http://www.gastropods.com/8/Shell_508.shtml Gastropods.com : ''Pseudozonaria arabicula''; accessed : 24 January 2011]

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Latest revision as of 19:36, 14 March 2023

Pseudozonaria arabicula
Shell of Pseudozonaria arabicula from Panama at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Pseudozonaria
Species:
P. arabicula
Binomial name
Pseudozonaria arabicula
(Lamarck, 1811)
Synonyms[1]

Pseudozonaria arabicula, common name : the little Arabian cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1][2]

Description[edit]

The shell size varies between 13 mm and 37 mm. The dorsum surface is usually dark brown or greyish, while the base is whitish or pale brown, with large dark brown or blackish spots on the ventral margin.

Distribution[edit]

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean along the Galapagos Islands and from Baja California to Peru.[1][3] A record of this species from Kenya[4] likely stems from a confusion with Mauritia arabica (syn. Cypraea arabica).

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Pseudozonaria arabicula. WoRMS (2009). Pseudozonaria arabicula. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527792 on 24 January 2011 .
  2. ^ "Pseudozonaria arabicula (Lamarck 1810) - Encyclopedia of Life". eol.org. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Pseudozonaria arabicula". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
  4. ^ Copley, H. (1945). List of cowries collected on the Kenyan coast by Colonel Maxwell and friends during July 1944. JEANHS XVII (83&84): 160.

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