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Naria albuginosa (J. E. Gray, 1825)

aubergine cowry

(C. albuginosa) Length: 29 mm; width: 17 mm;height: 13 mm.

(C. albuginosa) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), intertidal and sublittoral.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Littorinimorpha

Superfamily
Cypraeoidea

Family
Cypraeidae

Genus
Naria

Species
albuginosa

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.:Cypraea albuginosa Gray, 1825, Erosaria albuginosa (Gray, 1825), Erosaria albuginosa nariaeformis F. Schilder, 1930, Luponia fimbriolata Carpenter, 1872 (Horton et al., 2021).; (C. albuginosa) AMNH: 110741, 186388, 204599, USNM: 102504, 780554, LACM: 34-180.2 (= AHF 306-35), 34-217.6, 38-58.6 (= AHF 796.38), 66-206.1, MHNG: 12010, 993-186, CDRS: 112, 849, 1065, 1066, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG: expedition to the Galapagos, 1993

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: (C. albuginosa) Gulf of California, Mexico and Panama also Ecuador including Galapagos islands.

References

  • Finet, Y. (1994) The Marine Mollusks of the Galápagos Islands: a documented faunal list Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Genève, 180 pp.
  • Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
  • Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 pp.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Naria albuginosa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19955. Accessed 23 September 2026.