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

AfReMaS name details

Cypraea mauritiana Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID

216779 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216779)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Mauritia mauritiana (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Mauritia Troschel, 1863

Parent

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Cypraea mauritiana Linnaeus, 1758

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): 721 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cypraea mauritiana 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) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216779 on 2026-09-14

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 mauritiana Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216779 on 2026-09-14

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 22:08:23Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2023-04-08 11:00:49Z

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): 721 [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): 77, fig. 268 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (92 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 61606 Dorsal)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 61606 Ventral)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 61606 Dorsal)

Hosted externally

To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 61606 Ventral)

Hosted externally