Dog-rose cowrie
Mauritia eglantina
- Usual depth1–6 m
- Water temperature17–30 °C
- Best monthsJuly
- How commonOccasional
About this species
Mauritia eglantina, the 'dog-rose cowry' or 'eglantine cowry', is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.SubspeciesMauritia eglantina huberi Thach, 2018
Text from the Wikipedia article “Mauritia eglantina”, 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: 22 records
- February: 14 records
- March: 4 records
- April: 10 records
- May: 14 records
- June: 19 records
- July: 199 records
- August: 17 records
- September: 10 records
- October: 13 records
- November: 11 records
- December: 21 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 1–6 m · Deepest record: 20 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 17–30 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Dog-rose cowrie, Eglantine cowrie, dog-rose cowrie, eglantine cowrie
Names in 2 more languages
- German
- Zaunrosenkauri
- Japanese
- ホソヤクシマダカラ
Other scientific names: Arabica eglantina, Arabica perconfusa, Cypraea eglantina, Mauritia (Arabica) eglantina
Similar species
- Humpback cowrie
Mauritia mauritiana
- Jester cowrie
Mauritia scurra
Kiener's CowryBistolida kieneri
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.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 705 open-data records from 1833 to 2023.
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