Biology:Blasicrura pallidula

Short description: Species of gastropod

Little pallid cowry
Shell of Blasicrura pallidula from Philippines at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Blasicrura
Species:	B. pallidula
Binomial name
Blasicrura pallidula (John Samuel Gaskoin, 1849)
Synonyms
Cypraea pallidula (Gaskoin, 1849) Cypraea quadrimaculata var. pallidula Gaskoin, 1849

Blasicrura pallidula, common name the little pallid cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Subspecies

• Blasicrura pallidula luchuana Kuroda, 1960
• Blasicrura pallidula pallidula (Gaskoin, 1849-a)
• Blasicrura pallidula rhinoceros (Souverbie, 1865)
• Blasicrura pallidula vivia Steadmand and Cotton, 1943

Description

Blasicrura pallidula has a shell reaching a size of 11 – 32 mm. It is oval, the dorsum surface is usually pale brown, while the base is white. In the living cowries the mantle has a blackish coloration.

Distribution

This species can be found in North Australia , Philippines , New Caledonia, Samoan Islands and rarely seen in the Maldives.

References

• WoRMS
• Biolib
• "Blasicrura pallidula pallidula" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/3/Shell_553.shtml. 
• Cypraea.eu

External links

• Underwaterkwaj

Wikidata ☰ Q4925303 entry