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Cypraea pantherina [Lightfoot], 1786

216812  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216812)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
  6. Littorinimorpha (Order)
  7. Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
  8. Cypraeidae (Family)
  9. Cypraeinae (Subfamily)
  10. Cypraeini (Tribe)
  11. Cypraea (Genus)
  12. Cypraea pantherina (Species)
accepted
Species
marine
Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cypraea pantherina [Lightfoot], 1786. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216812 on 2026-03-31
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Cypraea pantherina [Lightfoot], 1786. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216812 on 2026-03-31
Date
action
by
1997-06-07 07:51:36Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
1997-11-12 07:24:15Z
changed
Fondo, Esther
2010-10-02 15:31:39Z
changed
Rosenberg, Gary
2011-06-08 21:32:57Z
changed
Moretzsohn, Fabio
2012-07-06 14:00:45Z
changed
Rosenberg, Gary

original description Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464 [details] 

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 Lorenz F. & Hubert A. (2000) A guide to worldwide cowries. Edition 2. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 584 pp.
page(s): 66 [details] 

additional source Burgess C.M. (1985). <i>Cowries of the world</i>. Cape Town: Gordon Verhoef, Seacomber Publications. xiv + 289 pp.
page(s): 78 [details] 

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): 285, pl. 57. [details] 
 
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To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (83 publications) 
To Conchology (Cypraea pantherina SPECIAL COLOR) 
To Conchology (Cypraea pantherina) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cypraea pantherina) 
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
To Malacopics (Cypraea pantherina [Lightfoot], 1786 Eritrea, Dahlak Archipelago, ex coll. E. Kaptei... 
To Malacopics (Cypraea pantherina [Lightfoot], 1786 Eritrea, Shim?l? al Ba?r? al A?mar, Dahlak Arch... 
To Malacopics (Cypraea pantherina [Lightfoot], 1786 Israel, Darom, Gulf of Eilat, ex coll. J. Traus... 
To Malacopics (Cypraea pantherina [Lightfoot], 1786 Philippines, ex coll. F.J.A. Slieker Jr.) 
To Malacopics (Cypraea pantherina [Lightfoot], 1786 Red Sea, ex coll. F.J.A. Slieker Jr.) 
To Malacopics (Cypraea pantherina Heiman & Mienis, 2001 Egypt, Al Bahr al Ahmar, Hurghada, ex coll.... 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
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