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Leporicypraea
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Leporicypraea

Leporicypraea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Species within this genus are commonly found in the Indo-Pacific region.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Map Cowrie

speciesLeporicypraea mappa

Leporicypraea geographica

speciesLeporicypraea geographica

Prince Cowrie

speciesLeporicypraea valentia

Leporicypraea rosea

speciesLeporicypraea rosea

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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 201351.