Naria thomasi (Crosse 1865)

Naria thomasi is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 24 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Eritrea and Somalia and in the Pacific along the Marquesas.

References

• Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey
• Poppe G. (1993) Una nuova Ciprea / A new cowrie. La Conchiglia 267: 32–35.
• Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 644 pp.