Naria nebrites

Naria nebrites, common name the false margined cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

Naria nebrites
Two views of a shell of Naria nebrites, anterior end towards the top
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Naria
Species:	N. nebrites
Binomial name
Naria nebrites (Melvill, 1888)
Synonyms[1][2]
Cypraea stellata Perry, 1811 Cypraea erosa nebrites Melvill, 1888 Cypraea nebrites Melvill, 1888 Cypraea carmen Smith, 1912 Cypraea erosa carmen Smith, 1912 Erosaria mozambicana F.A.Schilder & M.Schilder, 1938 Erosaria nebrites (Melvill, 1888) Erosaria ocellata fasciomaculata G.S.Coen, 1949

Subspecies and formae

• Naria nebrites ceylonica (f) Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938^[3]
• Naria nebrites oblonga (f) Melvill, J.C., 1888^[4]

Description

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along East Africa, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Singapore.