Margovula marginata, common name the Chinese egg shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Ovulidae |
| Genus: | Margovula |
| Species: | M. marginata
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| Binomial name | |
| Margovula marginata (Sowerby, 1828)
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Description
editThe size of an adult shell varies between 8 mm and 30 mm. The shell is rather thin, semitransparent, white, and encircled with an orange line at the margin. It is very obscurely decussated. Its interior is milkwhite. The length of the shell varies between 21 mm and 30 mm.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the demersal zone of the Red Sea and in the Central Indo-West Pacific off the Philippines and China.
References
edit- ^ a b Margovula marginata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1828). WoRMS (2009). Margovula marginata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430603 on 5 June 2010 .
- ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology VII, p. 246; 1885
- Cate, C. N. 1973. A systematic revision of the recent Cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger 15 (supplement): 1–117
- Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.
External links
edit- "Margovula marginata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 13 October 2011.