Macrocypraea cervus | |
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A living, sub-adult Macrocypraea cervus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Cypraeidae |
Genus: | Macrocypraea |
Species: | M. cervus
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Binomial name | |
Macrocypraea cervus (Linnaeus, 1771)
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Synonyms | |
Macrocypraea cervus, common name the Atlantic deer cowry, is a species of large sea snail, a very large cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.