WoRMS name details
Bulla carnea Poiret, 1789
431986 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:431986)
unaccepted
Species
marine
Poiret, J. L. M. (1789). <i>Voyage en Barbarie, ou Lettres écrites de l'ancienne Numidie pendant les années 1785 & 1786, sur la religion, les coutumes & les moeurs des Maures & des Arabes-Bédouins; avec un essai sur l'histoire naturelle de ce pays, 2.</i> Paris. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97673
page(s): vol. 2, p. 21-22 [details]
page(s): vol. 2, p. 21-22 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Bulla carnea Poiret, 1789. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=431986 on 2026-09-14
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Nomenclature
original description
Poiret, J. L. M. (1789). <i>Voyage en Barbarie, ou Lettres écrites de l'ancienne Numidie pendant les années 1785 & 1786, sur la religion, les coutumes & les moeurs des Maures & des Arabes-Bédouins; avec un essai sur l'histoire naturelle de ce pays, 2.</i> Paris. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97673
page(s): vol. 2, p. 21-22 [details]
page(s): vol. 2, p. 21-22 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Cate, C. N. (1973). A systematic revision of the recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. <em>The Veliger.</em> 15 (supplement): 1-117., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42495434 [details]
source of synonymy Lorenz, F.; Fehse, D. (2009). <i>The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae</i>. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 651 pp., 203 pls., 375 + numerous unnumb. text figs. [details]
source of synonymy Lorenz, F.; Fehse, D. (2009). <i>The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae</i>. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 651 pp., 203 pls., 375 + numerous unnumb. text figs. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Type locality not stated [coast of North Africa around La Calle, now El Kala, Algeria] [details]
