Blasicrura pallidula

Little pallid cowry
	Shell of Blasicrura pallidula from Philippines at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Blasicrura
Species:	B. pallidula
Binomial name
	Blasicrura pallidula; (John Samuel Gaskoin, 1849)
Synonyms
	Cypraea pallidula (Gaskoin, 1849); Cypraea quadrimaculata var. pallidula Gaskoin, 1849;

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Blasicrura pallidula, common name the little pallid cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Subspecies

Blasicrura pallidula luchuana Kuroda, 1960
Blasicrura pallidula pallidula (Gaskoin, 1849-a)
Blasicrura pallidula rhinoceros (Souverbie, 1865)
Blasicrura pallidula vivia Steadmand and Cotton, 1943

Description

Blasicrura pallidula has a shell reaching a size of 11 – 32 mm. It is oval, the dorsum surface is usually pale brown, while the base is white. In the living cowries the mantle has a blackish coloration.

Distribution

This species can be found in North Australia, Philippines, New Caledonia, Samoan Islands and rarely seen in the Maldives.

References

WoRMS
Biolib
"Blasicrura pallidula pallidula". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
Cypraea.eu

External links

Underwaterkwaj

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