| Lyncina vitellus | |
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| Five views of a shell of Lyncina vitellus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Lyncina |
| Species: | L. vitellus
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| Binomial name | |
| Lyncina vitellus | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Lyncina vitellus, common name : the calf cowry or the Pacific deer cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[2]
- ^ Collection of Cypraea
- ^ a b Lyncina vitellus (Linnaeus, 1758). WoRMS (2009). Lyncina vitellus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=530884 on 5 June 2010 .