Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Cypraeoidea > Family Cypraeidae > Subfamily Zonariinae > Tribe Zonariini > Genus Schilderina

Schilderina achatidea (J. E. Gray, 1837)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Schilderina*	Dolin & Aguerre, 2020	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Cypraea achatidea var. elongata*	Pallary, 1900	synonym
*Cypraea achatidea var. globosa*	Pallary, 1900	synonym
*Cypraea achatidea var. lineata*	Pallary, 1900	synonym
*Cypraea achatidea var. major*	Pallary, 1900	synonym
*Cypraea achatidea var. minor*	Pallary, 1900	synonym
*Cypraea achatidea var. nana*	Crosse, 1897	synonym
*Cypraea achatidea var. punctata*	Pallary, 1900	synonym
*Schilderia achatidea*	(J. E. Gray, 1837)	synonym

Children

Schilderina achatidea achatidea (J. E. Gray, 1837)

Literature

additional source	Luque, Á. A. (1980). El género Schilderia Tomlin, 1930 (Gastropoda, Cypraeidae). pp. 51-62, in: Comunicaciones del Primer Congreso Nacional de Malacología (Á.A. Luque del Villar, Ed.). Sociedad Española de Malacología, Madrid.
new combination reference	Dolin, L. & Aguerre, O. (2020). Description de deux espèces de Schilderina n. gen. (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Cypraeoidea) du Serravallien (Miocène moyen) du Béarn (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France). Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 155 [new ser., 48(1)]: 83-92.
taxonomy source	Nolf, F. (2022). Confirmation of the range extension of Schilderina achatidea (Gray, 1837) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from Galicia (Spain) in the north towards northern Namibia in the south of the eastern Atlantic. Neptunea. 15 (4): 1-7.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Schilderina achatidea (J. E. Gray, 1837). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1510192