Money Cowry (species: Monetaria moneta) in taxonomy (Lizard Island Field Guide)
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Monetaria moneta
Money Cowry


©Barbara Banks: Money Cowry (Monetaria moneta) at Lizard Island.

©Barbara Banks: Money Cowry (Monetaria moneta)at Lizard Island.

©Lexie Gersbeck and Gabi Howarth: Monetaria moneta 2.7 cm long from the Loomis Reef and Research Station area, Lizard Island. The blue spot on the shell is an artefact.

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Littorinimorpha
Family Cypraeidae
Genus Monetaria
Species Monetaria moneta

Lizard Island Field Guide
Lizard Island area: all known taxa

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Distinguishing features still need to be specified.

Size

  • Size data has not been obtained.

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Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

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References

  • Huelsken, T. (2008). Phylogenetic relationship and species identification within the Natcidae Guilding, 1834 (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda), Ph.D. thesis, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum. LIRS catalog number 1204.
  • Robertson, R. (1981). List of shell-bearing mollusks observed and collected at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Tryonia, 4: 1-32. LIRS catalog number 403.