Bistolida hirundo

Bistolida hirundo is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

Bistolida hirundo
Shell of Bistolida hirundo (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Bistolida
Species:	B. hirundo
Binomial name
Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
Bistolida hirundo hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)· accepted, alternate representation Blasicrura hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758) Cypraea hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 Cypraea hirundo var. formosa Gray, 1824 Cypraea parvula Philippi, 1849 (junior synonym) Evenaria hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758) Evenaria hirundo cameroni Iredale, 1939

Subspecies

• Bistolida hirundo francisca (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
• Bistolida hirundo neglecta (Sowerby, 1837) (species inquirenda)
• Bistolida hirundo rouxi (Ancey, 1882) (species inquirenda)

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.