Cypraea pantherina Panther cowry

Cypraea pantherina is commonly referred to as Panther cowry. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

10996 

AphiaID:

216812 

Scientific:

Cypraea pantherina 

German:

Panther-Kauri 

English:

Panther Cowry 

Category:

Lumache 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Cypraea (Genus) > pantherina (Species) 

Initial determination:

Lightfoot, 1786 

Occurrence:

Suez-Kanal, Eritrea, (the) Maldives, Arabian Sea, Arabian Sea, Bali, East-Atlantic Ocean, Egypt, Gulf of Aqaba / Gulf of Eliat, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Israel, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sulawesi, Tansania, the Mediterranean Sea, Western Indian Ocean, Yemen 

Sea depth:

1 - 40 Meter 

Size:

11,8 cm 

Temperature:

°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), Coral polyps = corallivorous, Fish eggs, Invertebrates, omnivore 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Cypraea pantherina
  Panther-Kauri
• Cypraea porcellus
• 
  Cypraea tigris
  Tigerkauri

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Cypraea sp.01
  Kaurischnecke, Porzellanschnecke

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2017-08-24 12:18:25 

Last edit:

2017-08-25 11:39:56 

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