Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Mollusca (phylum)
8. Gastropoda (class)
9. Prosobranchia (subclass)
10. Mesogastropoda (order)

Narrower term/s

• Cypraeidae (family)[+]
  • Monetaria (genus) [+]
    • Monetaria moneta (species)

Anotations

Scope note:

Cowrie shells (Cypraeidae) and egg shells (Ovulidae) that have highly polished and brilliantly colored shells and a mantle, which may cover the shell; if touched, members of group suddenly withdraw, the change in colour serving to confuse predators; common in shallow tropical oceans, some species in cooler waters.