title: Naria nebrites
text: # Naria nebrites
  
  Naria nebrites, common name the false margined cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
  
  ## Subspecies and formae
  
  * Naria nebrites ceylonica (f) Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938
  * Naria nebrites oblonga (f) Melvill, J.C., 1888
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along East Africa, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Singapore.
  
  