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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CYPRAEIDAE: EROSARIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Cypraeidae (Family)
> Erosariinae (Subfamily)
> Monetaria (Genus)
> caputserpentis (Species)
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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CYPRAEIDAE: EROSARIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Cypraeidae (Family)
> Erosariinae (Subfamily)
> Monetaria (Genus)
> caputserpentis (Species)
Details: Monetaria caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Size/Grows to:
Length 43mm
Distribution:
The entire Indo-West Pacific region, from east Africa to the Cocos Islands, off Central America. Australia and Kermadec Islands (beach shells)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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References and Publications
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.219)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil