Erosaria

Erosaria is a genus of sea snails, cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Species

Species within the genus Erosaria include:

• Erosaria acicularis (Gmelin, 1791)^[2] - the Atlantic yellow cowry
• Erosaria albuginosa (Gray, 1825)
• Erosaria beckii (Gaskoin, 1836)
• Erosaria bellatrix Lorenz, 2009^[2]
• Erosaria bernardi (Richard, 1974)
• Erosaria boivinii (Kiener, 1843)
• Erosaria cernica (Sowerby, 1870)
• Erosaria citrina (Gray, 1825)
• Erosaria eburnea Barnes, 1924
• Erosaria englerti (Summers & Burgess, 1965)
• Erosaria erosa^[2]
• Erosaria gangranosa (Dill.)^[2]
• Erosaria helvola (Linnaeus)^[2]
• Erosaria irrorata (Gray, 1828)
• Erosaria labrolineata (Gaskoin, 1849)
• Erosaria lamarckii (Gray, 1825)^[2]
• Erosaria macandrewi (Sowerby, 1870)
• Erosaria marginalis Dillwyn^[2]
• Erosaria miliaris (Gmelin, 1791)
• Erosaria nebrites Melvill^[2]
• Erosaria ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Erosaria ostergaardi (Dall, 1921)
• Erosaria poraria (Linnaeus, 1758)^[2]
• Erosaria sinensis Ma, 1997
• Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758)^[2]
• Erosaria sublitorea Lorenz, 1997
• Erosaria thomasi (Crosse, 1865)
• Erosaria turdus (Lamarck, 1810)^[2]

Species brought into synonymy 

• Erosaria caputserpentis^[2] : synonym of Monetaria caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Erosaria guttata (Gmelin, 1791) : synonym of Perisserosa guttata (Gmelin, 1791)
• Erosaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758) : synonym of Nucleolaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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