Chelycypraea testudinaria: Difference between revisions

Chelycypraea testudinaria
	Dorsal view of a shell of Chelycypraea testudinaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Subfamily:	Luriinae
Genus:	Chelycypraea
Species:	C. testudinaria
Binomial name
	Chelycypraea testudinaria; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Callistocypraea testudinaria (Linnaeus); Callistocypraea testudinaria ingens Schilder; Cypraea testudinaria Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym); Cypraea testudinaria ingens (Schilder & Schilder); Cypraea testudinosa Perry, G., 1811;

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Chelycypraea testudinaria, common name : tortoise cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

There is one subspecies : Chelycypraea testudinaria ingens Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1939 ^[2]

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles and Tanzania and in the Pacific Ocean

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 | phylum = [[Mollusca]]
 | classis = [[Gastropoda]]
-| unranked_familia = clade [[Caenogastropoda]]<br />clade [[Littorinimorpha]]
+| unranked_familia = clade [[Caenogastropoda]]<br />clade [[Hypsogastropoda]]<br/>clade [[Littorinimorpha]]
 | superfamilia = [[Cypraeoidea]]
 | familia = [[Cypraeidae]]