| Erosaria acicularis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Subfamily: | Erosariinae |
| Genus: | Erosaria |
| Species: | E. acicularis |
| Binomial name | |
| Erosaria acicularis (Gmelin, 1791) |
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Erosaria acicularis, common name : the Atlantic yellow cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[2]
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This species is distributed along North Carolina, USA, the Gulf Of Mexico, the Caribbean, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil.
The maximum recorded shell length is 31 mm.[5]
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.[5] Maximum recorded depth is 780 m.[5]