Testudovolva ericae

Testudovolva ericae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Ovulidae
Genus:	Testudovolva
Species:	T. ericae
Binomial name
	Testudovolva ericae; (Cossignani & Calo, 2002)
Synonyms
	Prionovolva ericae Cossignani & Calo, 2002;

Testudovolva ericae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.^[2]

Description

The shell size varies between 6 mm and 14 mm. After death, the shell appears to be a white or pale pink.^[3]

This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, and Queensland, Australia.

Testudovolva ericae primarily feeds on sessile prey^[4], such as Dendronephthya.^[5]

^ Cossignani & Calo. 2002. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale, 36 : 6–7. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 5 June 2010.
^ ^a ^b Testudovolva ericae (Cossignani & Calo, 2002). WoRMS (2010). Testudovolva ericae (Cossignani & Calo, 2002) . Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536028 on 20 January 2011 .
^ Galli, Claudio. "WMSDB - Worldwide Mollusc Species DataBase". Conchology. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
^ Gofas, Serge. "Testudovolva C. N. Cate, 1973". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
^ "Testudovolva ericae (Cossignani and Calo, 2002)". SURG. Solitary Islands Underwater Research Group. Retrieved 2 January 2026.

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Rosenberg, G. 2010. Description of a new species of Prionovolva (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ovulidae) from East Africa, with reassessment of the composition of the genus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 159: 39–66.

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