Diminovula culmen Ridged Egg Cowry, Ridged Pearl-ovulid

Diminovula culmen wird umgangssprachlich oft als Spindelkauri bezeichnet.

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lexID:

2424 

AphiaID:

430621 

Scientific:

Diminovula culmen 

German:

Eischnecke 

English:

Ridged Egg Cowry, Ridged Pearl-ovulid 

Category:

Escargots de mer 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Ovulidae (Family) > Diminovula (Genus) > culmen (Species) 

Initial determination:

(C. N. Cate, ), 1973 

Occurrence:

Africa, Australia, East Africa, Great Barrier Reef, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Western Pacific Ocean 

Sea depth:

1 - 25 Meter 

Size:

up to 0.39" (1 cm) 

Temperature:

71.6 °F - 80.6 °F (22°C - 27°C) 

Food:

Coral polyps = corallivorous, Parasitic 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Diminovula alabaster
• Diminovula aurantiomacula
• 
  Diminovula culmen
  Eischnecke
• Diminovula fainzilberi
• Diminovula mozambiquensis
• Diminovula punctata
• Diminovula rosadoi
• Diminovula sandrae
• Diminovula whitworthi

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Diminovula concinna
  Diamant-Eischnecke
• 
  Diminovula margarita
  Margarita Eischnecke
• 
  Diminovula sp.01
  Eischnecke
• 
  Diminovula sp.02
  Eischnecke

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2008-01-01 18:05:44 

Last edit:

2021-08-29 20:08:35 

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