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

AfReMaS name details

Cypraea erosa Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID

216790 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216790)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Naria erosa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Erosaria Troschel, 1863

Parent

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Cypraea erosa Linnaeus, 1758

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Subspecies Cypraea erosa erosa Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Naria erosa erosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Variety Cypraea erosa var. inocellata J. E. Gray, 1825 accepted as Naria miliaris (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Variety Cypraea erosa var. nebrites Melvill, 1888 accepted as Naria nebrites (Melvill, 1888) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

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): 723 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cypraea erosa 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=216790 on 2026-09-15

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 erosa Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216790 on 2026-09-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-09-14 06:49:43Z

changed

Garcia, Maria

2010-10-02 15:31:39Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2018-03-14 04:58:49Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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): 723 [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): 74 [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 (116 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 20 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection