Seashell specimen: Ring Top Cowrie - Monetaria annulus

  (1 piece lot)
 

Size of the Seashell: about 23x15x11 mm (0.9x1.6x0.4 inch).

Weight of the Seashell: about 4 gram

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item for every body.

The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with the same pictures.

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Ring Top Cowrie - Monetaria annulus

Order: Littorinimorpha  Family: Cypraeidae  Genus: Monetaria

Monetaria annulus, common name the ring cowrie, ring top cowrie, or gold ring cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

The shell size varies between 9 mm and 50 mm. The shell of this species is mostly off-white or pale yellowish in color, sometimes with a dark cast on the dorsum, and with two yellow or orange stripes along the upper sides. These stripes nearly touch at the ends, giving the impression of a ring.

This species and its subspecies are found in the Red Sea, and in the Indian Ocean on the coasts of Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, the East Coast of South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia, Yemen, Oman, Maldives, India, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, in the tropical Pacific Ocean as far north as Hawaii and towards the western Pacific reaching the Galápagos islands.