Bistolida hirundo

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Bistolida hirundo
Bistolida hirundo (MNHN-IM-2000-9966).jpeg
Shell of Bistolida hirundo (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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
Synonyms[1]
  • Bistolida hirundo hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Blasicrura hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cypraea hirundo Linnaeus, 1758
  • Cypraea hirundo var. formosa Gray, 1824
  • Cypraea parvula Philippi, 1849 (junior synonym)
  • Evenaria hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Evenaria hirundo cameroni Iredale, 1939

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 neglecta (Sowerby, 1837) (species inquirenda)
  • Bistolida hirundo rouxi (Ancey, 1882) (species inquirenda)

Distribution[]

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.

References[]

  1. ^ a b 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.
  • Orr J. (1985). Hong Kong seashells. The Urban Council, Hong Kong

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