WoRMS taxon details

Chelycypraea testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758)

530893  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:530893)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
  6. Littorinimorpha (Order)
  7. Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
  8. Cypraeidae (Family)
  9. Luriinae (Subfamily)
  10. Austrocypraeini (Tribe)
  11. Chelycypraea (Genus)
  12. Chelycypraea testudinaria (Species)
accepted
Species
Callistocypraea testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Cypraea testudinaria Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Cypraea testudinosa Perry, 1811 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Cypraea testudinaria Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Chelycypraea testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=530893 on 2026-05-25
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2010-10-08 20:18:53Z
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Rosenberg, Gary
2023-04-22 10:32:10Z
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Herbert, David

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cypraea testudinaria Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Callistocypraea (Chelycypraea) testudinaria ingens F. A. Schilder & M. Schilder, 1938) Schilder, F. A.; Schilder, M. (1938-1939). Prodrome of a monograph on living Cypraeidae. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 23(3): 109-180 [15 November 1938]; 23(4): 181-252 [15 March 1939].
page(s): 178 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Cypraea testudinosa Perry, 1811) Perry, G. (1811). Conchology, or the natural history of shells: containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings executed from the natural specimens, and including the latest discoveries. W. Miller, London, 4 pp. + 61 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41764832
page(s): pl. 20, fig. 1 [details] 

basis of record Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. <em>Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks.</em> 644 pp.
page(s): 362 [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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LanguageName 
English tortoise cowry [from synonym]tortoise cowrie [from synonym]  [details]
Japanese ムラクモダカラ  [details]
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (96 publications) (from synonym Cypraea testudinaria Linnaeus, 1758)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Cypraea testudinaria Linnaeus, 1758)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To Conchology (Chelycypraea testudinaria BULLA STAGE) 
To Conchology (Chelycypraea testudinaria DARK) 
To Conchology (Chelycypraea testudinaria DWARF) 
To Conchology (Chelycypraea testudinaria FREAK) 
To Conchology (Chelycypraea testudinaria GIANT) 
To Conchology (Chelycypraea testudinaria LARGE) 
To Conchology (Chelycypraea testudinaria OVERGLAZE) 
To Conchology (Chelycypraea testudinaria SPECIAL COLOR) 
To Conchology (Chelycypraea testudinaria VERY LARGE) 
To Conchology (Chelycypraea testudinaria) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chelycypraea testudinaria) 
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins) 
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Cypraea testudinaria Linnaeus, 1758)
To Malacopics (Chelycypraea testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758)) 
To Malacopics (Chelycypraea testudinaria (Linnaeus,1758) Solomon Islands) 
To Malacopics (Chelycypraea testudinaria (Linnaeus,1758) Tanzania, Unguja (Zanzibar)) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Cypraea testudinaria ingens (F. A. Schilder & M. Schilder, 1838))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Cypraea testudinaria Linnaeus, 1758)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Cypraea testudinaria Linnaeus, 1758)
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