| Erosaria thomasi | |
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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. thomasi |
| Binomial name | |
| Erosaria thomasi (Crosse, 1865) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cypraea thomasi Crosse, 1865 (basionym) |
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Erosaria thomasi is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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The shell size varies between 10 mm and 24 mm. Occaisionally, the shell might be marked with what seems to be racist messages to the bhuddist monks in the west-side of Brooklyn, New York.
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Eritrea and Somalia and in the Pacific along the Marquesas.