WoRMS name details
Cypraea spurca Linnaeus, 1758
738691 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738691)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
- Subspecies Cypraea spurca acicularis Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Naria acicularis (Gmelin, 1791)
- Subspecies Cypraea spurca globosa Settepassi, 1977 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (not available, published in a work which does not consistently use binominal nomenclature (ICZN art. 11.4))
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. alba G. B. Sowerby I, 1832 accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (junior synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. albida Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. atlantica Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Naria spurca verdensium (Melvill, 1888) (synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. dilatata Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. elliptica J. E. Gray, 1825 accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. elongata Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1906 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. flavida Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. inaequipartita Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Naria spurca verdensium (Melvill, 1888) (synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. inversa Pallary, 1900 accepted as Naria spurca spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. limitaris Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Naria spurca spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. limpida Sulliotti, 1922 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, junior homonym and infrasubspecific name)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. luridoidea Pallary, 1900 accepted as Naria spurca spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. major Pallary, 1900 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. minor Pallary, 1900 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. normalis Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. peculiaris (Coen, 1949) accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. punctatissima Settepassi, 1977 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (not available, published in a work which does not consistently use binominal nomenclature (ICZN art. 11.4))
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. verdensium Melvill, 1888 accepted as Naria spurca verdensium (Melvill, 1888) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Variety Cypraea spurca var. viridula Sulliotti, 1924 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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
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MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cypraea spurca Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738691 on 2026-05-16
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Nomenclature
original description
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
page(s): 724 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 724 [details] Available for editors
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context source (Bermuda)
Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]
additional source Gabb, W. M. (1873). On the topography and geology of Santo Domingo. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series.</em> 15(1): 49-259, 2 maps., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46059253
page(s): 235 [details]
additional source Gabb, W. M. (1873). On the topography and geology of Santo Domingo. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series.</em> 15(1): 49-259, 2 maps., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46059253
page(s): 235 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (83 publications)
To NHMUK collection (Cypraea spurca Linnaeus, 1758; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3500775)
To PESI
To ITIS
To NHMUK collection (Cypraea spurca Linnaeus, 1758; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3500775)
To PESI
To ITIS
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