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.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 10mm and 28 mm.

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.

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.

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