African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

WoRMS taxon details

Zoila Jousseaume, 1884

AphiaID

391306 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:391306)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Cypraea scottii Broderip, 1831 accepted as Zoila friendii friendii (J. E. Gray, 1831) (type by subsequent designation)

Type taxon of

Zoilinae Iredale, 1935

Parent

Zoilinae Iredale, 1935

Original name

Zoila Jousseaume, 1884

Synonymised names

Cypraea (Zoila) Jousseaume, 1884 · unaccepted

Erronea (Zoila) Jousseaume, 1884 · unaccepted

Zoila (Zoila) Jousseaume, 1884 · unaccepted

Direct children (21)

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Species Zoila alabaster Mont & Lorenz, 2013
Species Zoila decipiens (E. A. Smith, 1880)
Species Zoila eludens L. Raybaudi, 1991
Species Zoila friendii (J. E. Gray, 1831)
Species Zoila jeaniana C. N. Cate, 1968
Species Zoila ketyana (L. Raybaudi, 1978)
Species Zoila marginata (Gaskoin, 1849)
Species Zoila mariellae L. Raybaudi, 1983
Species Zoila orientalis L. Raybaudi, 1985
Species Zoila perlae Lopez & Chiang, 1975
Species Zoila rosselli Cotton, 1948
Species Zoila thersites (Gaskoin, 1849)
Species Zoila venusta (G. B. Sowerby I, 1847)
Subgenus Zoila (Zoila) Jousseaume, 1884 accepted as Zoila Jousseaume, 1884
1. Species Zoila (Zoila) friendii (J. E. Gray, 1831) accepted as Zoila friendii friendii (J. E. Gray, 1831)
2. Species Zoila (Zoila) rosselli Cotton, 1948 accepted as Zoila rosselli rosselli Cotton, 1948
3. Species Zoila (Zoila) lobettiana Raybaudi, 1995 represented as Zoila lobettiana L. Raybaudi, 1995
Species Zoila delicatura Chandler & DuRoss, 1997 accepted as Zoila eludens delicatura Chandler & DuRoss, 1997
Species Zoila episema Iredale, 1939 accepted as Zoila venusta episema Iredale, 1939
Species Zoila raywalkeri Lorenz, 2011 accepted as Zoila rosselli raywalkeri Lorenz, 2011 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Zoila lobettiana L. Raybaudi, 1995 (uncertain > unassessed)

Environment

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

Original description

Jousseaume, F. (1884). Division des Cypraeidae. Le Naturaliste. 6(52): 414-415., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33927566
page(s): 414 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Zoila Jousseaume, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391306 on 2025-07-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-04-15 09:48:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-10-02 14:14:35Z

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Rosenberg, Gary

2013-02-23 20:58:28Z

changed

Moretzsohn, Fabio

2016-03-27 10:57:53Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2021-12-21 14:32:46Z

changed

Dekker, Henk

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Jousseaume, F. (1884). Division des Cypraeidae. Le Naturaliste. 6(52): 414-415., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33927566
page(s): 414 [details]

basis of record Lorenz F. (2001) Monograph of the living Zoila. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 187 pp. [details]

Other

additional source Wilson B. & Clarkson P. (2004) Australia's spectacular cowries. A review and field study of two endemic genera: Zoila and Umbilia. Odyssey Publishing, El Cajon, California. 396 pp. [details]

additional source Darragh, T. A. (2011). A revision of the Australian fossil species of Zoila (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 68: 1-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58913778 [details]

additional source Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 644 pp.
page(s): 320. [details]

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Zoila)
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