| Staphylaea limacina | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Staphylaea |
| Species: | S. limacina |
| Binomial name | |
| Staphylaea limacina (Lamarck, 1810) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cypraea limacina Lamarck, 1810 (basionym) |
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Staphylaea limacina is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles and Tanzania.