Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pseudozonaria arabicula
Caurí arábicco, Little arabian cowrie
(C. arabicula) Length: 26 mm; width: 16 mm; height: 13 mm.
(C. arabicula) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth). The color of the dorsal surface varies form light buff to greenish blue,speckled and streaked with light or dark brown.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Cypraeoidea
Family
Cypraeidae
Section
Pseudozonariini
Genus
Pseudozonaria
Species
arabicula
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cypraea arabicula (Lamarck, 1811) (Horton et al., 2021); (C. arabicula)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (C. arabicula) South of California to Perú and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
- 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.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. (1998) A Field Guide to Sea Stars and other Echinoderms of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 83 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, Pseudozonaria arabicula", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19956. Accessed 7 June 2026.