Family ID:
19
Family Name:
Cypraeidae
Class:
GASTROPODA, Cuvier, 1797
Author, Year:
Rafinesque, 1815
Last update:
2016-05-16 10:09:46

Family [& Subfamilies] Species [65]

Afrozoila fultoni amorimi (Raybaudi, 1989)
Afrozoila fultoni massieri (Lorenz, 1991) [1]
Bistolida diauges (Melvill, 1888) [1]
Bistolida kieneri (Hidalgo, 1906) [2]
Bistolida vasta (Schilder & Schilder, 1938) [2]
Chelycypraea testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758) [1]
Contradusta walkeri (Sowerby, 1832)
Cribrarula cribraria comma (Perry, 1811) [2]
Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, 1758 [2]
Erosaria beckii (Gaskoin, 1836) [2]
Erosaria cernica (Sowerby II, 1870) [1]
Erosaria citrina (Gray, 1825) [1]
Erosaria erosa (Linnaeus, 1758) [7]
Erosaria gangranosa (Dillwyn, 1817) [1]
Erosaria helvola (Linnaeus, 1888) [2]
Erosaria labrolineata (Gaskoin, 1849)
Erosaria lamarckii (Gray, 1825) [1]
Erosaria ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Erosaria poraria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Erosaria turdus (Lamarck, 1810)
Erronea adusta (Lamarck, 1810)
Erronea caurica elongata (Perry, 1811) [1]
Erronea errones (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ficadusta barclayi (Reeve, 1857) [1]
Leporicypraea mappa (Linnaeus, 1758) [1]
Leporicypraea rosea (Gray, 1824) [1]
Luria isabella (Linnaeus, 1758) [5]
Lyncina broderipii (Gray in G.B. Sowerby I, 1832) [1]
Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758) [4]
Lyncina lynx (Linnaeus, 1758) [1]
Lyncina vitellus (Linnaeus, 1758) [1]
Mauritia arabica immanis Schilder & Schilder, 1939 [1]
Mauritia depressa (Gray, 1824) [1]
Mauritia histrio (Gmelin, 1791) [1]
Mauritia mauritiana (Linnaeus, 1758) [1]
Mauritia scurra (Gmelin, 1791) [1]
Melicerona felina felina (Gmelin, 1791) [1]
Monetaria annulus (Linnaeus, 1758) [3]
Monetaria caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758) [1]
Monetaria moneta (Linnaeus, 1758) [1]
Nesiocypraea lisetae (Kilburn, 1975)
Notadusta punctata (Linnaeus, 1771) [1]
Ovatipsa chinensis variolaria (Lamarck, 1810) [1]
Ovatipsa chinensis violacea (Rous, 1905) [1]
Palmadusta asellus (Linnnaeus, 1758) [1]
Palmadusta clandestina passerina (Melvill, 1888) [1]
Palmadusta contaminata (Sowerby, 1832) [3]
Palmadusta diluculum diluculum (Reeve, 1845) [2]
Palmadusta diluculum virginalis (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
Palmadusta ziczac (Linnaeus, 1758)
Purpuradusta fimbriata durbanensis (Schilder & Schilder, 1938) [2]
Purpuradusta microdon (Gray, 1828) [1]
Purpuradusta minoridens (Melvill, 1901) [1]
Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758) [3]
Pustularia globulus brevirostris Schilder & Schilder, 1938 [2]
Pustularia margarita (Dillwyn, 1817) [2]
Staphylaea staphylaea laevigata (Dautzenberg, 1932) [1]
Talostolida teres (Gmelin, 1791) [2]
Talparia talpa (Linnaeus, 1758) [2]

Bibliographic records [16]

B. Wilson, C. Wilson, P. Baker (1993). "Australian Marine Shells : Prosobranch Gastropods : Part 1". Kallaroo, Odyssey Publishing, 408 p.
Philippe Bouchet, Jean-Pierre Rocroi (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Hackenheim, Conchbooks; Malacologia
R. Tucker Abbott, S. Peter Dance (1986). "Compendium of Seashells : Color Guide to More than 4,200 of the World's Marine Shells". Melbourne, FL, USA, American Malacologists Inc., 411 p.
William Rune Liltved (1989). "Cowries and their Relatives of Southern Africa : Study of the Southern African Cypraeacean and Velutinacean Gastropod Fauna". [s.l.], Seacomber Publications, 208 p
Felix Lorenz. "[The] Cowry : website of Dr. Felix Lorenz"
Alain Robin (2008). "Encyclopedia of Marine Gastropods". Hackenheim, Germany, Xenophora, Conchbooks, 480 p.
Felix Lorenz Jr., Alex Hubert (1993). "[A] Guide to Worldwide Cowries". Wiesbaden, Verlag Christa Hemmen, 571 p
Eddie Hardy. "Hardy's Internet Guide to Marine Gastropods"
Takashi Okutani (ed.) (2000). "Marine Mollusks in Japan". Tokyo, Tokay University Press, 1173 p.; Illustrated;
Jay, Maurice, Bidgrain, Philibert. "Mollusques de l'île de La Reunion"
Kilburn, Richard. "[A] new species of Cowry (Mollusca Cypraeidae Cypraea, subgenus Nesicypraea) from Southern Mozambique"
In: Durban Museum Novitates. - Vol 10, Part 16 (April 1975), pp. 218-220
The Academy of Natural Sciences, et al.. "OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Species Database"
Steyn, Douw G., Lussi, Markus (2005). "Offshore Shells of Southern Africa : pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods". [s.l.], Douw G. Steyn & Markus Lussi, 289 p
Guido T. Poppe (2008). "Philippine Marine Mollusks : Volume 1 : Gastropoda Part 1". Hackenheim, Germany, Conchbooks, 758 p.
Richard Kilburn, Elizabeth Rippey (1982). "Sea Shells of Southern Africa". Johannesburg, Macmillan South Africa, xi+249 p.
Carlos Leobrera, F. M. Leobrera (eds.); F. J. Springsteen (Scientific Researcher); Neal Oshima (Photographer) (1986). "Shells of the Philippines". Manila, Carfel Seashell Museum, 377 p

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