| Cypraeidae | |
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| A live Talparia talpa in situ with its mantle almost fully extended, anterior end towards the right | |
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| Shells of a number of species of cowries | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
| Type genus | |
| Pseudomelatoma Dall, 1918
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Cypraeidae, commonly named the cowries (sg. cowry), is a taxonomic family of small to large sea snails. These are marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and cowry allies. [1]