species 1,046 observations

Humpback Cowrie

Mauritia mauritiana

Field notes

Mauritia mauritiana, common names the humpback cowry, chocolate cowry, mourning cowry and Mauritius cowry, is a species of tropical sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided