Cellana eucosmia

Cellana eucosmia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Lottioidea
Family:	Nacellidae
Genus:	Cellana
Species:	C. eucosmia
Binomial name
	Cellana eucosmia; (Pilsbry, 1891)
Synonyms
	Helcioniscus eucosmia Pilsbry, 1892 (original combination); Patella variegata Reeve, 1854 (invalid: junior homonym of Patella variegata Röding, 1798, and several others);

Cellana eucosmia is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania.

Cellana eucosmia (Pilsbry, 1891). WoRMS (2010). Cellana eucosmia (Pilsbry, 1891). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207650 on 16 June 2010 .

Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
Nakano & Ozawa (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79-99.

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