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Egg cowries
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Egg cowries

Ovulidae

Ovulidae, common names the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries, is a family of small to large predatory or parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and the cowry allies.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Simniinae

subfamilySimniinae

Prionovolvinae

subfamilyPrionovolvinae

Ovulinae

subfamilyOvulinae

Pediculariinae

subfamilyPediculariinae

Aclyvolvinae

subfamilyAclyvolvinae

Kuroshiovolva

genusKuroshiovolva

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49260.