Bistolida hirundo
| Bistolida hirundo | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Bistolida |
| Species: | B. hirundo |
| Binomial name | |
| Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Bistolida hirundo is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
Subspecies
- 'Bistolida hirundo francisca (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
- Bistolida hirundo hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Bistolida hirundo neglecta (Sowerby I, 1837) (species inquirenda)
- Bistolida hirundo rouxi (Ancey, 1882) (species inquirenda)
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea$ and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus). WoRMS (2009). Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597174 on 23 December 2012.
- Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129-144, 17 pls.