Pseudozonaria nigropunctata

Pseudozonaria nigropunctata, common name the black-spotted cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Black-spotted cowry
Shell of Pseudozonaria nigropunctata from Galapagos Islands at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Cypraeoidea
Family:
Cypraeidae
Genus:
Pseudozonaria
Species:
P. nigropunctata
Binomial name
Pseudozonaria nigropunctata
Gray, 1828[1]
Synonyms
  • Cypraea nigropunctata Gray, 1828[1]

Description

Adult shell size varies between 17 mm and 42 mm. The dorsum surface is usually dark brown or greenish, while the base may be pale brown, yellowish or also pinkish, with small dark brown spots on the ventral margin.

Distribution

This species can be found in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador and in northern Peru.

References
  1. Gray, John Edward (1828). "Additions and corrections to a monograph on Cypraea, a genus of testaceous Mollusca". Zoological Journal. 4 (13): 66–88.
  • Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
  • WoRMS
  • "Pseudozonaria nigropunctata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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