| Cypraea erosa | |
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| Cypraea erosa, anterior end to the left | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Cypraea |
| Species: | C. erosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Cypraea erosa Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Cypraea erosa, common name the gnawed cowrie, is a species of cowry, a sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
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