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Pseudozonaria robertsi (Hidalgo, 1906)

Caurí de Roderts, Snail

(C. robertsi) Length: 23 mm; width: 14 mm; height: 11 mm.

(C. robertsi) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), low intertidal

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Littorinimorpha

Superfamily
Cypraeoidea

Family
Cypraeidae

Section
Pseudozonariini

Genus
Pseudozonaria

Species
robertsi

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Cypraea punctulata Gray, 1824, Cypraea robertsi Hidalgo, 1906 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: (C. robertsi) Nicaragua to Paita, Mexico (Mazatlan), to south of Peru and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)

References

  • 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. 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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