| Lyncina carneola | |
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| Lyncina carneola | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Lyncina |
| Species: | L. carneola |
| Binomial name | |
| Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Lyncina carneola, common name the Carnelian cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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These cowries reach 30–80 millimetres (1.2–3.1 in) of length. Their shape is rounded and the basic color is light brown, with some trasversal yellowish bands.
This species is distributed in the seas along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, the East Coast of South Africa, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Red Sea, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.