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About this species
Globovula cavanaghi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Globovula cavanaghi”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 6 records
- February: 15 records
- March: 29 records
- April: 11 records
- May: 9 records
- June: 3 records
- July: 6 records
- August: 7 records
- September: 6 records
- October: 8 records
- November: 6 records
- December: 10 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 20–29 °C
Photos
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Names and classification
Other scientific names: Amphiperas bullatus, Diminovula cavanaghi, Globovula cottesloensis, Globovula spatiosa, Globovula tripolia, Ovula bullata, Primovula cavanaghi, Prionovolva cavanaghi
Similar species
Common egg cowrieOvula ovum
Common calpurnusCalpurnus verrucosus
Ridged Egg CowrieDiminovula culmen
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- 81 open-data records from 1874 to 2010.
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