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Monetaria caputdraconis (Dragon's-Head Cowry)

Synonyms: Cypraea caputdraconis (homotypic); Cypraea caputdraconis f. poppei; Erosaria caputdraconis; Erosaria caputdraconis var. punctatissima; Erosaria punctatissima

Wikipedia Abstract

Monetaria caputdraconis, common name the "dragon's-head cowry", is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. The common name of this species comes from its Latin name caputdraconis, meaning "the head of the dragon".
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Infraspecies

Monetaria caputdraconis caputdraconis
Monetaria caputdraconis poppei

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Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0