Species under Erosaria
n= 21
Species name Common name Distribution Max. Length (cm)
Erosaria albuginosa
(Gray,1825)
Eastern Central Pacific 2.5
Erosaria beckii
(Gaskoin, 1836)
Beck's cowry Indo-Pacific 1.8
Erosaria bernardi
(Richard, 1974)
Polynesia
Erosaria boivinii
(Kiener, 1843)
Western Central Pacific 3.5
Erosaria cernica
(Sowerby, 1870)
Indo-Pacific 3
Erosaria citrina
(Gray,1825)
Western Indian Ocean 2.5
Erosaria eburnea
(Barnes, 1824)
Ivory cowry Western Central Pacific 4
Erosaria englerti
(Summers & Burgess, 1965)
Southeast Pacific 2.5
Erosaria gangranosa
(Dillwyn, 1814)
Gangranous cowrie Indo-Pacific
Erosaria guttata
(Gmelin, 1791)
Indo-West Pacific 6.5
Erosaria helvola
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Southwest Pacific and Eastern Central Pacific
Erosaria labrolineata
(Gaskoin, 1849)
Indo-Pacific 2
Erosaria lamarckii
(Gray, 1825)
Western Indian Ocean
Erosaria macandrewi
(Sowerby, 1870)
Western Indian Ocean 2
Erosaria marginalis
(Dillwyn, 1827)
Western Indian Ocean 2.5
Erosaria miliaris
(Gmelin, 1791)
Miliaris cowrie Western Pacific Ocean 5
Erosaria nebrites
(Melvill, 1888)
Nebrite cowrie Western Indian Ocean 3.5
Erosaria ocellata
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Northern Indian Ocean 3
Erosaria poraria
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Porous cowry Indo-Pacific 2.5
Erosaria thomasi
(Crosse, 1865)
Polynesia 1.8
Erosaria turdus
(Lamarck, 1810)
Thrush cowry Western Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea
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