Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Cypraeoidea > Family Cypraeidae

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cypraea porcellus Brocchi, 1814

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English: cowry

Literature

original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.

basis of record

Nomenclator Zoologicus

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Citation

Moretzsohn, F.; Rosenberg, G. (2014). Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205978

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

no data

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205978

Last modified

2013-02-23 by Fabio Moretzsohn

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