Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Cypraeoidea > Family Ovulidae > Subfamily Simniinae

Xandarovula C. N. Cate, 1973

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

note: Dolin & Ledon (2002), on the basis of radularcharacters described by Vayssière (1923) consider this genus to belong to the tribe Ovulini Fleming, 1828.

Children

Xandarovula aetheria Nappo, 2024
Xandarovula aperta (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)
Xandarovula hiscocki (Lorenz & Melaun, 2011)
Xandarovula hyalina (Lorenz & Fehse, 2009)
Xandarovula jacintoi (Fehse & Trigo, 2015)
Xandarovula patula (Pennant, 1777)

Literature

original description	Cate, C. N. (1973). A systematic revision of the recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger. 15 (supplement): 1-117.
additional source	Dolin L. & Ledon D. (2002). Nouveaux taxons et discussion de la systématique des genres correspondants d'Ovulidae (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) de l'Éocène inférieur de Gan (France). Geodiversitas. 24(2): 329-347.
additional source	Lorenz, F.; Fehse, D. (2009). The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 651 pp., 203 pls., 375 + numerous unnumb. text figs.
source of synonymy	Nocella, E.; Zvonareva, S. S.; Fassio, G.; Pica, D.; Buge, B.; Villa, R.; Puillandre, N.; Modica, M. V.; Oliverio, M. (2024). Spicy food for the egg-cowries: the evolution of corallivory in the Ovulidae (Gastropoda: Cypraeoidea). Frontiers in Marine Science. 10.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Xandarovula C. N. Cate, 1973. 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:224886