Lyncina | |
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A lateral view of a shell of Lyncina aurantium, anterior end towards the left | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
Family: | Cypraeidae |
Genus: | Lyncina Troschel, 1861 |
Synonyms[1] | |
Callistocypraea Schilder, 1927 |
Lyncina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
Species within the genus Lyncina include: [1]