Cribrarula gaskoini
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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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| Binomial name | |
| 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
The shell size varies between 10 and 30 mm (0.39 and 1.18 in).
Distribution
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
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 WoRMS. "Cribrarula gaskoini (Reeve, 1846)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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
- 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
- "Cribrarula gaskoinii". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
