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Honey cowrie
Naria helvola
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 1075035, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Honey cowrie
- Scientific
- Naria helvola
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Cowries
- Family
- Cypraeidae (cowries)
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
The honey cowrie is a small cowrie with a back of white spots on a brown or purplish background and rich orange-brown sides and base. It lives under rocks on shallow reef flats.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=27); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=13, 5 observers).
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1075035
- inaturalist.org /taxa/747594
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Naria_helvola_01.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.