Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Cypraeoidea

Cypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758
Erosaria Troschel, 1863
Erronea Troschel, 1863
Luria Jousseaume, 1884
Palmadusta Iredale, 1930
Purpuradusta Schilder, 1939
Schilderia Tomlin, 1930
Trona Jousseaume, 1884
Zonaria Jousseaume, 1884

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English: cowries sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 English-United States: cowries

Literature

basis of record

Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.

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.

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.

additional source

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

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

additional source

Burgess, C.M. (1985) Cowries of the World. Gordon verhoef, Seacomber Publications, South Africa, Cape Town. XIV + 289 pp.

additional source

Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey

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Citation

Moretzsohn, F.; Gofas, S. (2014). Cypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23022

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2012-11-24 by Fabio Moretzsohn

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