African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Cypraea carneola Linnaeus, 1758

AfReMaS name details

Cypraea carneola Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID

216762 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216762)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Parent

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Cypraea carneola Linnaeus, 1758

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Subspecies Cypraea carneola crassa Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Forma Cypraea carneola f. minor Dautzenberg, 1923 accepted as Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Subspecies Cypraea carneola sowerbyi Anton, 1838 accepted as Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 719 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cypraea carneola Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216762 on 2026-10-10

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Cypraea carneola Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216762 on 2026-10-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-07-18 15:57:33Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-10-02 15:31:39Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2026-06-02 11:02:06Z

changed

Herbert, David

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original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 719 [details] Available for editors

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 Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) <i>Seashells of eastern Arabia.</i> Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
page(s): 72, fig. 245 [details]

additional source Branch, G. M. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. <em>David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg.</em> , available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (102 publications)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection