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Cypraea annulus Linnaeus, 1758

Gold Ring Cowry


Lauren Hughes (2011)

 

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Biogeographical Distribution

  The gold ring cowry, like many other cowries, are distributed throughout west indo pacific region. Places of distribution are the seas and coastlines from east Africa and the central Pacific Ocean including Northern Australia.



Purple circle shows the general area in the Indo-West Pacific where C. annulus can be found.
(Eric Gaba – Wikimedia Commons user: Sting)

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