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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Mollusks
  4. Gastropods
  5. Littorinimorph Snails
  6. Cowries and Ovulids
  7. Cowries

family

Cowries

Cypraeidae

Includes
10 native 32 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Cypraeinae 4 native
  • Erosariinae 3 native
  • Erroneinae 1 native
  • Luriinae 1 native
  • Zonariinae 1 native
  • Pustulariinae

Range

United States

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

Most observed native cowries All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Chestnut Cowry Neobernaya spadicea 2,546 observations
  • Humpback Cowrie Mauritia mauritiana 1,046 observations
  • Reticulated Cowry Mauritia maculifera 441 observations
  • Kernel Cowry Nucleolaria nucleus 144 observations

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