Tiger Cowrie (Cypraea tigris)

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Cypraea tigris

Linnaeus, 1758

Tiger Cowrie

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Taxonomy

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Littorinimorpha

Family

Cypraeidae

Other species in Cypraeidae

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