Lyncina camelopardalis, common name the camel cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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Species: | L. camelopardalis
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Lyncina camelopardalis (Perry, 1811)
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There is one subspecies : Lyncina camelopardalis sharmiensis Heiman & Mienis, 1999
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Eritrea, Somalia and Madagascar.