Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Cypraeoidea > Family Cypraeidae > Subfamily Cypraeinae > Tribe Cypraeini

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: cowries; cowry sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Kauris; Kaurischnecken; Porzellanen; Porzellanschnecken

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
additional source	Ingram, W. M. (1943). Comments on F. A. Schilder's "Cypraeacea from Hawaii" and Schilder and Schilder's "Prodome of a monograph of living Cypraeidae". The Nautilus. 57(1): 22-27.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758. 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:205978