African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

WRiMS taxon details

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Live tiger cowrie from Hawaii

AphiaID

205978 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205978)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Cypraeini Rafinesque, 1815

Orig. name

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Direct children (2)

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Species Cypraea gracilis Gaskoin, 1849 accepted as Purpuradusta gracilis (Gaskoin, 1849) (original combination)
Species Cypraea lentiginosa J. E. Gray, 1825 accepted as Palmadusta lentiginosa (J. E. Gray, 1825)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Panov, V. E.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Robinson, T. B.; Rius, M.; Sobczyk, R.; Stern, N.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Yeo Chong Jinn, D.; Zhan, A. (2024) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205978 on 2024-05-24

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Panov, V. E.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Robinson, T. B.; Rius, M.; Sobczyk, R.; Stern, N.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Yeo Chong Jinn, D.; Zhan, A. (2024). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced%20/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205978 on 2024-05-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-11 06:44:08Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-10-02 14:14:35Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2013-02-23 20:58:28Z

changed

Moretzsohn, Fabio

2017-08-26 20:18:08Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-01-02 21:59:50Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2021-12-21 14:32:46Z

changed

Dekker, Henk

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original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8515476 [details]