Cypraea_hirundo

<i>Bistolida hirundo</i>

Bistolida hirundo

Species of gastropod

Bistolida hirundo is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]

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Subspecies

  • Bistolida hirundo francisca (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
  • Bistolida hirundo neglecta (Sowerby, 1837) (species inquirenda)
  • Bistolida hirundo rouxi (Ancey, 1882) (species inquirenda)

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.

References

  1. [1]
    Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus). WoRMS (2009). Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597174 on 23 December 2012 .
  • 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.
  • Orr J. (1985). Hong Kong seashells. The Urban Council, Hong Kong


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