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Monetaria annulus
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| Monetaria annulus |
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| A dorso-lateral view of a shell of Monetaria annulus, anterior end towards the right |
| Scientific classification |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Mollusca |
| Class: |
Gastropoda |
| (unranked): |
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: |
Cypraeoidea |
| Family: |
Cypraeidae |
| Genus: |
Monetaria |
| Species: |
M. annulus |
| Binomial name |
Monetaria annulus
(Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Synonyms[1] |
- Cypraea annulus Linnaeus, 1758
- Cypraea annularis Perry, G., 1811
- Cypraea annulata Donovan, E., 1820
- Cypraea annulifera Conrad, T.A., 1866
- Cypraea camelorum Rochebrune, A.-T. de, 1884
- Monetaria harmandiana Rochebrune, A.-T. de, 1884
- Cypraea calcarata Melvill, J.C., 1888
- Cypraea obvelata calcarata Melvill, J.C., 1888
- Cypraea tectoriata Sulliotti, G.R., 1924
- Monetaria sosokoana Ladd, H.S., 1934
- Monetaria annulus scutellum (f) Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1937
- Monetaria dranga Iredale, T., 1939
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Monetaria annulus, common name the ring cowrie or gold ringer, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
There is one subspecies : Monetaria annulus camelorum (Rochebr.)
Description
The shell size varies between 9 mm and 50 mm
Distribution
This species and its subspecies are distributed in the Red Sea, and in the seas along Aldabra, Chagos , the Comores, the East Coast of South Africa, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia, South Mozambique and Tanzania and in the Pacific Ocean along Hawaii and the Galápagos
References
Monetaria annulus (Linnaeus). WoRMS (2009). Monetaria annulus (Linnaeus). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216875 on10 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.
External links
Gastropods.com : Monetaria annulus; accessed : 24 November 2010 |