| Cypraeovula capensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Cypraeovula |
| Species: | C. capensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Cypraeovula capensis (Gray, 1828) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cypraea capensis Gray, 1828 (basionym) |
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Cypraeovula capensis, common name the Cape cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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The following subspecies are accepted :[1]
This species is distributed along the East Coast of South Africa