title: Naria cernica
text: # Naria cernica
  
  Naria cernica is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
  
  ## Subspecies
  
  * Naria cernica cernica (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
  * Naria cernica leforti (Senders & P. Martin, 1987)
  * Naria cernica viridicolor (C. N. Cate, 1962)
  * Naria cernica marielae (Cate, 1960): synonym of Naria cernica cernica (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
  * Naria cernica ogasawarensis (Schilder, 1944): synonym of Naria cernica cernica (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
  * Naria cernica tomlini (Schilder, 1930): synonym of Naria cernica cernica (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Chagos, Easter Island, the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius, Western Australia.
  
  