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Macrocypraea
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Macrocypraea

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

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Little Deer Cowrie

speciesMacrocypraea cervinetta

Spotted Cowrie

speciesMacrocypraea zebra

Atlantic Deer Cowrie

speciesMacrocypraea cervus

Mammoth Cowrie

speciesMacrocypraea mammoth

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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 246644.