African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Ovatipsa chinensis (Gmelin, 1791)

AfReMaS taxon details

Ovatipsa chinensis (Gmelin, 1791)

AphiaID

530882 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:530882)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Ovatipsa Iredale, 1931

Original name

Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Cribraria chinensis (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (original combination)

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Subspecies Ovatipsa chinensis variolaria (Lamarck, 1810)
Subspecies Ovatipsa chinensis violacea (Rous, 1905) accepted as Ovatipsa chinensis variolaria (Lamarck, 1810) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ovatipsa chinensis (Gmelin, 1791). 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://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=530882 on 2026-03-31

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. Ovatipsa chinensis (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=530882 on 2026-03-31

Taxonomic edit history

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2010-10-08 20:18:53Z

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Rosenberg, Gary

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original description (of Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

context source (HKRMS) Orr J. (1985). Hong Kong seashells. The Urban Council, Hong Kong [details]

basis of record Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. <em>Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks.</em> 644 pp.
page(s): 487 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications) (from synonym Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ovatipsa chinensis)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791)
To Malacopics (Ovatipsa chinensis (Gmelin, 1791))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791)

Unreviewed

To Malacopics (Ovatipsa chinensis (Gmelin, 1791))

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