Erronea caurica Dragon cowrie, Thick-edged cowrie

Erronea caurica is commonly referred to as Dragon cowrie, Thick-edged cowrie. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

11949 

AphiaID:

216861 

Scientific:

Erronea caurica 

German:

Kaurischnecke 

English:

Dragon Cowrie, Thick-edged Cowrie 

Category:

Snails 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Erronea (Genus) > caurica (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, ), 1758 

Occurrence:

Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Dampier Archipelago, (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Arabian Sea, Arabian Sea, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Bunaken, Cambodia, Cebu ((Philippines), China, Cook Islands, East Africa, Eastern Indian Ocean, Egypt, Fiji, French Polynesia, Great Barrier Reef, Guam, Gulf of Aqaba / Gulf of Eliat, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Java, Kenya, Kiribati, Lembeh Strait, Lessepsian migrant, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moluccas, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, New South Wales (Australia), Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Okinawa, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Quatar, Queensland (Australia), Red Sea, Réunion , Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sulu Sea , Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Ryukyu Islands, the Seychelles, Timor, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Western Australia, Western Indian Ocean, Yemen, Zanzibar 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

0 - 30 Meter 

Size:

1.57" - 2.76" (4,5cm - 7cm) 

Temperature:

24,5 °F - 28,4 °F (24,5°C - 28,4°C) 

Food:

Food specialist, No reliable information available 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Erronea adusta
• Erronea angioyorum
• 
  Erronea caurica
  Kaurischnecke
• Erronea cylindrica
• 
  Erronea errones
  Wandernde-Kauri
• Erronea fernandoi
• Erronea nymphae
• 
  Erronea onyx
  Onyx-Kauri
• Erronea ovum
• Erronea pallida
• Erronea pyriformis
• Erronea rabaulensis
• Erronea subviridis
• Erronea vredenburgi
• Erronea xanthodon
• Alle anzeigen

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Erronea melanesiae
  Melanesische Kauri

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2019-02-06 12:04:07 

Last edit:

2019-10-25 11:21:18 

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