Cribrarula gaskoini
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Cribrarula |
| Species: | C. gaskoini
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| Cribrarula gaskoini (Reeve, 1846)
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Cribrarula gaskoini is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
Description
[edit]The shell size varies between 10 and 30 mm (0.39 and 1.18 in).
Distribution
[edit]This species is distributed along Hawaii and the Fiji Islands. The distribution of cowries in the Indo-Pacific is not arbitrary. Fossil evidence and patterns of modern endemism in the central Pacific and Indian Oceans suggest that speciation occurred outside the geographical limits of the Malay Archipelago.[2] Cribrarula gaskoini from the Hawaiian Islands is clearly related to C. cribraria, which is distributed across the Indo-Pacific region.[2] It is one of the most rarely found cowries on the Kwajalein Islands, as many other islands throughout the pacific.[3]
Habitat
[edit]Found from shallow waters to depths of around 100 ft (30 m), it resides on cliffs and under ledges, hiding during the day and emerging at night to feed.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b WoRMS. "Cribrarula gaskoini (Reeve, 1846)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
- ^ a b Kay, Alison E. (1 July 1990). "Cypraeidae of the Indo-Pacific: Cenozoic Fossil History and Biogeography". Bulletin of Marine Science. 47 (1): 23–34.
- ^ "Cribrarula gaskoini, Marshall Islands". underwaterkwaj.com. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
- ^ Hoover, John (1998). Hawai'i's Sea Creatures – A Guide To Hawai'i's Marine Invertebrates. Mutual Pub. ISBN 978-1-56647-220-3.
Further reading
[edit]- Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey
- Schilder, M. and Schilder, F. A. 1971. A Catalogue of Living and Fossil Cowries. Taxonomy and Bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea (Gastropoda Prosobranchia). Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Mémoires, Deuxième Série, Fasc. 85: 246 pp. page(s): 56
- Lorenz & Hubert (2000). A guide to worldwide cowries. ConchBooks 1–584 page(s): 182
- Lorenz F. (2002) New worldwide cowries. Descriptions of new taxa and revisions of selected groups of living Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur-Cismar 20: 1–292, pls 1–40. page(s): 267
External links
[edit]- "Cribrarula gaskoinii". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
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