Arestorides argus: Difference between revisions

Eyed cowrie
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Arestorides
Species:	A. argus
Binomial name
	Arestorides argus; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Cypraea argus Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym); Lyncina argus (Linnaeus, 1758); Talparia argus (Linnaeus, 1758);

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Arestorides argus, common name : the eyed cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

Two subspecies are recognized :^[1]

Arestorides argus argus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Arestorides argus contracasta Lorenz, 2012
Arestorides argus contrastriata (Perry, 1811) : common name : pheasant cowrie: synonym of Cypraea contrastriata Perry, 1811

This species and its subspecies are distributed in the seas off Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.

^ ^a ^b ^c Arestorides argus (Linnaeus, 1758). WoRMS (2009). Arestorides argus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216786 on 10 October 2010 .

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
MacDonald & Co (1979). The MacDonald Encyclopedia of Shells. MacDonald & Co. London & Sydney.

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