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BeRMS taxon details

Cypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815

Cypraeidae pattern of diversity

AphiaID

23022 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23022)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Cypraeoidea Rafinesque, 1815

Direct children (3)

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Subfamily Cypraeinae Rafinesque, 1815
1. Tribe Cypraeini Rafinesque, 1815
  1. Genus Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp. , available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98061z.r=rafinesque.langEN [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards) Belgian Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/berms./aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23022 on 2025-05-24

Regional species database citation

VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards). Belgian Register of Marine Species. Cypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23022 on 2025-05-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2009-03-28 21:19:53Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2012-11-24 01:20:16Z

changed

Moretzsohn, Fabio

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original description Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp. , available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98061z.r=rafinesque.langEN [details]

context source (PeRMS) Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. Revista de Biologia Tropical. 51(supplement 3): 225-284. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25127200 [details] Available for editors

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

additional source Lorenz F. (2002) New worldwide cowries. Descriptions of new taxa and revisions of selected groups of living Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur-Cismar 20: 1-292, pls 1-40. [details]

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

additional source Meyer, C. (2003). Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the Tropics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 79: 401-459. [details]

additional source Schilder, M. & Schilder, F. A. (1971). A catalogue of living and fossil cowries. A taxonomy and bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea (Gastropoda Prosobranchia. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Mémoires, Deuxième Series. 85: 1-246. [details]

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

additional source Moretzsohn, F. (2014). Cypraeidae: How well-inventoried is the best-known seashell family?. American Malacological Bulletin. 32(2): 278-289., available online at https://doi.org/10.4003/006.032.0219
page(s): 278-289 [details]

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

additional source Helfer, J. R. (1946). The classification of Cypraeidae. The Nautilus. 60(2): 49-53., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8523730 [details]