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| phylum = [[Mollusca]] |
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| classis = [[Gastropoda]] |
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| unranked_superfamilia = clade [[Caenogastropoda]]<br />clade [[Hypsogastropoda]]<br/>clade [[Littorinimorpha]] |
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| superfamilia = [[Cypraeoidea]] |
| superfamilia = [[Cypraeoidea]] |
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| familia = [[Cypraeidae]] |
| familia = [[Cypraeidae]] |
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| Species: | M. felina
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| Melicerona felina (Gmelin, 1791)
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Melicerona felina, common name the kitten cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
Description
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Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, the East Coast of South Africa, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.
References
- ^ a b Melicerona felina (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- 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
- Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey
- Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cape Town & Johannesburg
External links
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