Bistolida

Bistolida is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

Bistolida
Bistolida kieneri depriesteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Bistolida Cossmann, 1920
Type species
Cypraea stolida Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
Derstolida Iredale, 1935 Stolida Jousseaume, 1884 (invalid: junior homonym of Stolida Lesson, 1832 [Aves]; Bistolida is a replacement name)

Species

Species within the genus Bistolida include:

• Bistolida brevidentata (Sowerby, 1870)
• Bistolida diauges (Melvill, 1888) ^[2]
• Bistolida erythraeensis (Sowerby, 1837)^[3]
• Bistolida fuscomaculata (Pease, 1865)
• Bistolida goodallii (Sowerby, 1832)
• Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Bistolida kieneri (Hidalgo, 1906) ^[4]
• Bistolida nanostraca Lorenz & Chiapponi, 2012
• Bistolida owenii (Sowerby, 1837) ^[5]
• Bistolida piae Lorenz & Chiapponi, 2005
• Bistolida stolida (Linnaeus, 1758)^[6]
• Bistolida ursellus (Gmelin, 1791) ^[7]
• Bistolida vasta Schilder & Schilder, 1938

Species brought into synonymy

• Bistolida summersi Schilder, 1958: synonym of Blasicrura summersi (Schilder, 1958)