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Swallow cowrie
Bistolida hirundo
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 597174, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Swallow cowrie
- Scientific
- Bistolida hirundo
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Cowries
- Family
- Cypraeidae (cowries)
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
The swallow cowrie is a small cowrie with a bluish-grey back crossed by brown bands and a brown spot at each end. It lives under rocks on shallow reefs.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=21); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=4, 2 observers).
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597174
- inaturalist.org /taxa/898539
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Cypraea_(Bistolida)_hirundo_(YPM_IZ_013840.GP).jpeg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.