Lyncina camelopardalis
Species of gastropod
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Lyncina camelopardalis, common name the camel cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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| Lyncina camelopardalis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Lyncina |
| Species: | L. camelopardalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Lyncina camelopardalis (Perry, 1811) | |
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There is one subspecies : Lyncina camelopardalis sharmiensis Heiman & Mienis, 1999
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Eritrea, Somalia and Madagascar.
