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Arabian Cowrie
Mauritia arabica
Mauritia arabica, common name the Arabian cowry, is a species of cowry, a sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
From the article Mauritia arabica on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
Mauritia arabica is distributed widespread in the Indo-West Pacific, from East and South Africa (including Madagascar, but not the Red Sea nor the Persian Gulf), to the eastern Polynesia. It spreads north to Japan and south to New South Wales, Australia.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
At the table
Mauritia arabica is collected for food by locals in many areas. The shell is commonly used in shellcraft.
Wikipedia: “Human uses”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Mauritia arabica in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 368274.