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

AfReMaS name details

Cypraea arabica Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID

216764 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216764)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (original combination)

Accepted name

Mauritia arabica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Parent

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Cypraea arabica Linnaeus, 1758

Direct children (2)

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Subspecies Cypraea arabica depressa J. E. Gray, 1824 accepted as Mauritia depressa (J. E. Gray, 1824) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Subspecies Cypraea arabica immanis (F. A. Schilder & M. Schilder, 1939) accepted as Mauritia arabica immanis F. A. Schilder & M. Schilder, 1939

Environment

marine

Original description

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

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Cypraea arabica 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) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216764 on 2026-07-13

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 arabica Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216764 on 2026-07-13

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

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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. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [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 Webb, W. M. (1897). Some sciagraphs of shells. The Journal of Malacology. 6(1) supplement: unpaginated, pl. 3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16100165#page/290/mode/1up
page(s): pl. 3, figs. 1-7 [details]

additional source Rous, S. (1905). On some Cypraeidae in the collection of Mr. D. W. Ferguson, of Brooklyn, with descriptions of several new varieties. The Nautilus. 19(7): 75-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1755575
page(s): 75 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (154 publications)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 22 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 531873 Dorsal)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 531873 Dorsal)

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