''Bistolida'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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Cypraeidae
Cypraeidae, common name, commonly named the cowries ( cowry or cowrie), is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small to large sea snails. These are marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, ...
, the cowries.
Species
Species within the genus ''Bistolida'' include:
*''
Bistolida brevidentata''
( Sowerby, 1870)
*''
Bistolida diauges''
( Melvill, 1888)
*''
Bistolida erythraeensis
''Bistolida erythraeensis'', the Red Sea cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Description
These quite uncommon shells reach of length, with a maximum si ...
''
( Sowerby, 1837)
* ''
Bistolida fuscomaculata''
(Pease, 1865)
*''
Bistolida goodallii''
( Sowerby, 1832)
*''
Bistolida hirundo''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
)
*''
Bistolida kieneri''
(Hidalgo, 1906)
* ''
Bistolida nanostraca''
Lorenz & Chiapponi, 2012
*''
Bistolida owenii''
( Sowerby, 1837)
* ''
Bistolida piae''
Lorenz & Chiapponi, 2005
*''
Bistolida stolida''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
)
*''
Bistolida ursellus''
( Gmelin, 1791)
*
Bistolida vasta Schilder & Schilder, 1938
;Species brought into synonymy:
*''Bistolida summersi''
Schilder, 1958: synonym of ''
Blasicrura summersi''
(Schilder, 1958)
References
External links
Jousseaume, F. (1884). Division des Cypraeidae. Le Naturaliste. 6(52): 414-415Iredale, T. (1935). Australian cowries. The Australian Zoologist. 8(2): 96-135, pls 8-9
Cypraeidae
Gastropod genera
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