Global InformationMonetaria caputdraconis information
| Monetaria caputdraconis | |
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| Dorsal view of a shell of Monetaria caputdraconis from Easter Island, anterior end towards the right | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Monetaria |
| Species: | M. caputdraconis
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| Binomial name | |
| Monetaria caputdraconis (Melvill, 1888)
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Monetaria caputdraconis, common name the "dragon's-head cowry", is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
The common name of this species comes from its Latin name caputdraconis, meaning "the head of the dragon".