African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, 1758

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Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, 1758

Live tiger cowrie from Hawaii

AphiaID

216843 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216843)

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Status

accepted

Rank

Species

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Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Parent

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, 1758

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Subspecies Cypraea tigris tigris Linnaeus, 1758

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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. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 721 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216843 on 2026-06-17

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216843 on 2026-06-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-07-18 15:57:33Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2011-06-08 21:32:57Z

checked

Moretzsohn, Fabio

2011-12-19 16:43:08Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

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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. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 721 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Branch, G. M. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg. , available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

additional source Kay, E. A. (1979). Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4: Mollusca. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publications. xviii + 653 pp., available online at http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/sp64-4.pdf
page(s): 202 [details]

additional source Lorenz F. & Hubert A. (2000) A guide to worldwide cowries. Edition 2. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 584 pp.
page(s): 65 [details]

additional source Burgess C.M. (1985). Cowries of the world. Cape Town: Gordon Verhoef, Seacomber Publications. xiv + 289 pp.
page(s): 76 [details]

additional source Dodge H. 1953. A historical review of the mollusks of Linnaeus. Part 2. The class Cephalopoda and the genera Conus and Cypraea of the class Gastropoda. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 103(1): 1-134., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/422
page(s): 79 [details]

additional source Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
page(s): 80, fig. 279 [details]

additional source Meyer C.P. & Tweedt S.M. (2017). A new subspecies of Cypraea tigris Linnaeus 1758 (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Acta Conchyliorum. 16: 59-68. [details]

additional source Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore shells of southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
page(s): 42 [details]

additional source Fowler, O. (2016). Seashells of the Kenya coast. ConchBooks: Harxheim. Pp. 1–170.
page(s): 22, pl. 9, fig. 7 [details]

additional source Pilsbry, H. A. (1909). On some deformed Cypraea tigris from the collection of A. Da Costa Gomez. The Nautilus. 23(7): 85-86, pls. 7-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5314487 [details]

additional source Harris, W. (1935). Cypraea tigris Linné in the Hawaiian Islands. The Nautilus. 49(2): 39-41., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8527670 [details]