Naria poraria

Erosaria poraria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Subfamily:	Erosariinae
Genus:	Erosaria
Species:	E. poraria
Binomial name
Erosaria poraria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Cypraea poraria Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym) Cypraea coeca Röding, P.F., 1798 Cypraea kauaiensis Melvill, J.C., 1888 Cypraea kawaiensis Melvill, J.C., 1888 Cypraea albinella Melvill, J.C. & R. Standen, 1895 Cypraea wilhelmina Kenyon, A., 1897 Cypraea vibex Kenyon, A., 1902 Cypraea insignis Dautzenberg, Ph., 1903 Erosaria poraria theoreta (f) Iredale, T., 1939 Erronea mbalavensis Ladd, H.S., 1945

Erosaria poraria is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Description

The shell size varies between 10mm and 28 mm.

Distribution

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

References

• Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129-144, 17 pls.