| 词条 | Mauritia depressa |
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| name = Mauritia depressa | image = Mauritia_depressa_01.JPG | image_caption = Five views of a shell of Mauritia depressa | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Mollusca | classis = Gastropoda | unranked_superfamilia = clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha | superfamilia = Cypraeoidea | familia = Cypraeidae | subfamilia = | genus = Mauritia | subgenus = | species = M. depressa | binomial = Mauritia depressa | binomial_authority = (J. E. Gray, 1824) | synonyms_ref = [1] | synonyms = Cypraea depressa J. E. Gray, 1824 }}Mauritia depressa, common name the "depressed cowry" or the "honey cowry", is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1] DescriptionDistributionHabitatThese cowries mainly live in shallow water, in coral reefs or in lagoons near the wave-swept edges, from the intertidal zone to {{convert|20|m}} depth, usually under coral slabs or rocks. They are active at night, when they feed on algal crests. Subspecies
References1. ^1 {{WRMS species|216871|Mauritia depressa (Gray, 1824)|||WoRMS (2009). Mauritia depressa (Gray, 1824). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216871 on 12 October 2010}} Footnotes
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2 : Cypraeidae|Gastropods described in 1824 |
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