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

superfamily

Cowries and Ovulids

Cypraeoidea

Includes
16 native 33 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Cowries 10 native
  • Egg Cowries 6 native

Range

United States

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

Most observed native cowries and ovulids 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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