Cypraea arabica arabica Schilder and Schilder, 1939

Lam, Katherine, Morton, Brian & Leung, K. F., 2008, Shell-bearing Mollusca (Bivalvia and Gastropoda) from submarine caves in Hong Kong, Journal of Natural History 42 (9 - 12), pp. 927-952 : 941

Cypraea arabica arabica Schilder and Schilder, 1939

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Description

Juvenile shells brown and similarly shaped to an olivid, that is, tubular with a low spire and a long aperture. Shell of adult oval to cylindrical, with black spots along the either white or light-brown margin. Brown reticulations cover the patchy grey and brown dorsum.

Type locality

For Cypraea arabica , ‘‘in India orientali, ad Fretam Sunda’’ (Sunda Strait, Indonesia).

Distribution

Common in the Indo-Pacific. Beneath rocks, lower subtidal zone to 10 m.

Figures

Figure 4. A and B, Diodora quadriradiata, height×length565.5×14.22 mm; C and D, Cypraea arabica arabica juvenile, height×width510.32×4.88 mm; E and F, Ergalatax contracta, height×width514.58×6.7 mm; G and H, Thais luteostoma, height×width5 24.83×16.22 mm; I and J, Engina armillata height×width58.35×4.67 mm.