Erronea pallida

Erronea pallida, common name pale cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

Erronea pallida
Shell of Erronea pallida from India at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Erronea
Species:	E. pallida
Binomial name
Erronea pallida (Gray, 1824)
Synonyms[1]
Cypraea pallida Gray, 1824 Erronea gilva Sulliotti, G.R., 1924

Description

The shell size varies between 13 mm and 34 mm. The dorsum surface is usually pale brown or greyish, with a darker brown area in the middle, while the base is whitish. It can be found under rocks in turbid or muddy waters at intertidal depth.

Distribution

This species is distributed along the Gulf of Oman, the Philippines and in the Indian Ocean along Kenya.