| Cyphoma aureocinctum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Ovulidae |
| Subfamily: | Simniinae |
| Genus: | Cyphoma |
| Species: | C. aureocinctum |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyphoma aureocinctum (Dall, 1889) |
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Cyphoma aureocinctum, common name : the Gold-banded Egg Shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.[1]
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This species is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean along Cape Verde, West Africa, Southeast USA and Brazil.
The shell size varies between 16 mm and 27 mm.
The maximum recorded shell length is 18.5 mm.[2]
Minimum recorded depth is 123 m.[2] Maximum recorded depth is 128 m.[2]