Naria ocellata

Erosaria ocellata
	Erosaria ocellata
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. ocellata
Binomial name
	Erosaria ocellata; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Cypraea ocellata Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym); Cypraea brunnea Gray, J.E., 1825; Cypraea calopthalma Melvill, J.C., 1888; Cypraea palatha Melvill, J.C., 1888; Cypraea pelidna Melvill, J.C., 1888; Cypraea pretiosa Melvill, J.C., 1905;

Erosaria ocellata 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 13 mm and 44 mm.

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Mozambique and Melanesia.

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