Ovula ovum common egg cowrie

Ovula ovum wird umgangssprachlich oft als Große Eischnecke bezeichnet. Die Schnecke ernährt sich von Weichkorallen.

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lexID:

4984 

AphiaID:

216904 

Scientific:

Ovula ovum 

German:

Große Eischnecke 

English:

Common Egg Cowrie 

Category:

Slakken 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Ovulidae (Family) > Ovula (Genus) > ovum (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, ), 1758 

Occurrence:

Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Central Pazific, China, East Africa, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Kiribati, Lord Howe Island, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Red Sea, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Kermadec Islands, the Seychelles, Timor, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Western Pacific Ocean 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

0 - 20 Meter 

Habitats:

Coral reefs, On living corals, Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

3.15" - 4.33" (8cm - 11cm) 

Temperature:

24,2 °F - 29,3 °F (24,2°C - 29,3°C) 

Food:

Carnivore, Coral polyps = corallivorous 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Ovula costellata
  Rosamund Eischnecke
• 
  Ovula ovum
  Große Eischnecke

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Ovula sp.01
  Eischnecke

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2013-01-10 17:50:44 

Last edit:

2025-07-07 13:35:47 

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