Bistolida hirundo

Bistolida hirundo is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]

Bistolida hirundo
Shell of Bistolida hirundo (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Cypraeoidea
Family:
Cypraeidae
Genus:
Bistolida
Species:
B. hirundo
Binomial name
Bistolida hirundo
Synonyms[1]
  • Bistolida hirundo hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Blasicrura hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cypraea hirundo Linnaeus, 1758
  • Cypraea hirundo var. formosa Gray, 1824
  • Cypraea parvula Philippi, 1849 (junior synonym)
  • Evenaria hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Evenaria hirundo cameroni Iredale, 1939

Subspecies
  • Bistolida hirundo francisca (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
  • Bistolida hirundo neglecta (Sowerby, 1837) (species inquirenda)
  • Bistolida hirundo rouxi (Ancey, 1882) (species inquirenda)

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.

References
  1. Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus). WoRMS (2009). Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597174 on 23 December 2012 .
  • Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129–144, 17 pls.
  • Orr J. (1985). Hong Kong seashells. The Urban Council, Hong Kong
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