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Erronea onyx Onyx Cowrie

Erronea onyx is commonly referred to as Onyx 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.

Profilbild Urheber Scott & Jeanette Johnson, Kwajalein Unterwater

Onyx cowry - Erronea onyx (30mm) Anilao, 2019


Courtesy of the author Scott & Jeanette Johnson, Kwajalein Unterwater . Please visit www.underwaterkwaj.com for more information.

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lexID:
14167 
AphiaID:
216860 
Scientific:
Erronea onyx 
German:
Onyx-Kauri 
English:
Onyx Cowrie 
Category:
 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Erronea (Genus) > onyx (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Linnaeus, ), 1758 
Occurrence:
Anilao, Australia, China, Comores, East Africa, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Pacific Ocean, Palau, Philippines, Réunion , Singapore, Tansania, Thailand, the Seychelles 
Sea depth:
0 - 30 Meter 
Size:
1.18" - 2.36" (3cm - 6cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 78.8 °F (°C - 26°C) 
Food:
Algae (Algivore), algae grazer, epiphytes feeder, Coral polyps = corallivorous, omnivore 
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:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2024-05-06 19:30:17 

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Erronea onyx (Linnaeus, 1758)

Erronea onyx, common name the onyx cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Synonymised names
Cypraea onyx Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Cypraea prunus Röding, 1798 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cypraea pulla Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cypraea succincta Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Erronea (Adusta) onyx (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Erronea onyx draco Bergonzoni, 2013 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Erronea succincta (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Direct children (4)
Subspecies Erronea onyx onyx (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Erronea onyx adusta (Lamarck, 1810) accepted as Erronea adusta (Lamarck, 1810)
Subspecies Erronea onyx draco Bergonzoni, 2013 accepted as Erronea onyx (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Subspecies Erronea onyx melanesiae F. A. Schilder, 1937 accepted as Erronea melanesiae F. A. Schilder, 1937 (unaccepted > superseded combination)

External links

  1. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 08.10.2021.
  2. wildsingapore.com (en). Abgerufen am 08.10.2021.
  3. WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 08.10.2021.

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An Onyx cowry with richly colored mantle. Erronea onyx,30mm.Anilao 2016
Onyx cowry - Erronea onyx (30mm), Zenopontonia rex, seemed temporarily content on the mantle, Anilao, 2019
Onyx cowry - Erronea onyx (30mm) Anilao, 2019

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