Barycypraea teulerei

Bernaya teulerei
	Shells of Barycypraea fultoni (left) and Bernaya teulerei (right)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Bernaya
Species:	B. teulerei
Binomial name
	Bernaya teulerei; (Cazenavette, 1846)
Synonyms
	Barycypraea teulerei (Cazanavette, B., 1846) ; Cypraea leucostoma Gaskoin, J.S., 1843; Cypraea teuleri Cazenavette, 1846; Cypraea hidalgoi Shaw, H.O.N., 1909);

Bernaya teulerei is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[2]

Description

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Eritrea and Somalia

^ Gastropods.com : Barycypraea teulerei; accessed : 23 October 2010
^ Bernaya teulerei Caz.. WoRMS (2009). Bernaya teulerei Caz.. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216737 on 23 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

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