Ovula costellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.[1]

Ovula costellata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Ovulidae
Genus: Ovula
Species:
O. costellata
Binomial name
Ovula costellata
Lamarck, 1810
Synonyms[1]
  • Bulla imperialis Solander, 1786
  • Ovula angulosa Lamarck, 1822
  • Ovula columba Schubert & Wagner, 1829
  • Ovula tortilis Deshayes, 1844

Description

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Commonly known as the Pink-Mouth Egg Shell, this relatively small snail attains a shell size of 50mm.[2]

Distribution

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Ovula costellata has a tropical to sub-tropical distribution range, from East Africa to the Western Pacific and New Zealand's Kermadec islands.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Ovula costellata Lamarck, 1810. WoRMS (2009). Ovula costellata Lamarck, 1810. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=431060 on 5 June 2010 .
  2. ^ "NZ Mollusca - Ovula costellata". www.mollusca.co.nz. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  3. ^ "NZ Mollusca - Ovula costellata". www.mollusca.co.nz. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  4. ^ Brook, F. J. (1998). "The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, Southwest Pacific Ocean". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 28 (2): 185–233. Bibcode:1998JRSNZ..28..185B. doi:10.1080/03014223.1998.9517560. ISSN 0303-6758.
  • Quoy, H. E. Th. & Gaimard, P., 1834 Mollusques. Zoologie. In Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville, vol. 3(1), p. 1-366
  • Liltved W.R. (2000) Cowries and their relatives of southern Africa. A study of the southern African cypraeacean and velutinacean gastropod fauna. Seacomber Publications. 224 pp.
  • Steyn, D.G & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. Pp. i–vi, 1–289 page(s): 35
  • Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.
  • Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
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