Bistolida hirundo

Bistolida hirundo is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Bistolida hirundo
Shell of Bistolida hirundo (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Bistolida
Species:	B. hirundo
Binomial name
Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Bistolida hirundo hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)· accepted, alternate representation Blasicrura hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758) Cypraea hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 Cypraea hirundo var. formosa Gray, 1824 Cypraea parvula Philippi, 1849 (junior synonym) Evenaria hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758) Evenaria hirundo cameroni Iredale, 1939

Subspecies

• Bistolida hirundo francisca (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
• Bistolida hirundo neglecta (Sowerby, 1837) (species inquirenda)
• Bistolida hirundo rouxi (Ancey, 1882) (species inquirenda)

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.

References

• Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129–144, 17 pls.
• Orr J. (1985). Hong Kong seashells. The Urban Council, Hong Kong

External links

• Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae
• Iredale, T. (1939). Australian Cowries: Part II. Australian Zoologist. 297-323, 3 pl
• Philippi, R. A. (1849). Centuria tertia testaceorum novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 5(10): 151-160 [March 1849; 5(11): 161-176 [March 1849]; 5(12): 186-192 [April 1849]; 6(2): 17-26 [May1849 ]