| Luria pulchra | |
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| A lateral view of a shell of Luria pulchra, anterior end towards the right | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Subfamily: | Luriinae |
| Genus: | Luria |
| Species: | L. pulchra |
| Binomial name | |
| Luria pulchra (Gray, 1824) |
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| Synonyms.[1] | |
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Cypraea pulchra Gray, 1824 (basionym) |
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Luria pulchra 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 recognized :
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf and along Eritrea.