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Gold ring cowrie
Monetaria annulus
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 216875, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Gold ring cowrie
- Scientific
- Monetaria annulus
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Cowries
- Family
- Cypraeidae (cowries)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 4 cm (shell length)
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic), recorded from 1 to 8 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
The gold ring cowrie is a small, pale grey-blue to white cowrie with a bright orange-yellow ring around the top of the shell. It is common on shallow reef flats, seagrass and rubble.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=18); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=13, 2 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Monetaria-annulus.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216875
- inaturalist.org /taxa/55944
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Monetaria_annulus_0002.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.