WoRMS taxon details
Austrocypraea Cossmann, 1903
AphiaID: 578025
AphiaID: 578025
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Cypraea contusa McCoy, 1877 † (type by subsequent designation) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Cypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Schilder, M. and Schilder, F. A. 1971. A Catalogue of Living and Fossil Cowries. Taxonomy and Bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea (Gastropoda Prosobranchia). Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Mémoires, Deuxième Série, Fasc. 85: 246 pp. page(s): 82 [details] additional source: Lorenz F. & Hubert A. (2000) A guide to worldwide cowries. Edition 2. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 584 pp. page(s): 85 [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Austrocypraea contusa (McCoy, 1877) † Species Austrocypraea reevei (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | ||||||||||
| Link | To GenBank | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:578025 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Moretzsohn, F. (2013). Austrocypraea Cossmann, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578025 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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