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Reproductive Data for Cypraea reticulata (Gmelin)
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occurrence basaltic benches and tidepools throughout Hawaii Specimens have been collected in tide pools with C. caputserpentis at Kukuila, Kauai, and Makapuu, Oahu; and to depths of 30 feet.
references E. A. Kay in The Systematics of the Cypraeidae Elucidated by a Study of Cypraea caputserpentis and Related Forms, 1957

Phylogenetic Information
phylum Mollusca
class Gastropoda (subclass Prosobranchia)
order Neotaenioglossa
family Cypraeidae (subfamily Cypraeinae)
genus Cypraea
species reticulata (Gmelin)
reproduction method copulation