WoRMS taxon details
Cypraecassis Stutchbury, 1837
204021 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204021)
accepted
Genus
Buccinum rufum Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Cypraecassis rufa (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by original designation)
Cassidea (Cypraeicassis) Cossmann, 1903 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cassis (Cypraecassis) Stutchbury, 1837 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Cypraecassis (Cypraecassis) Stutchbury, 1837 · alternative representation
Cypraecassis (Levenia) J. E. Gray, 1847 · alternative representation
Cypraeicassis Cossmann, 1903 · unaccepted > unjustified emendation
Levenia J. E. Gray, 1847 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Cypraecassis cantaurana Beu, 2010
- Species Cypraecassis coarctata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
- Species Cypraecassis rufa (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Cypraecassis tenuis (W. Wood, 1828)
- Species Cypraecassis testiculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Cypraecassis wilmae Kreipl & Alf, 2000
- Species Cypraecassis mamillata Salmon, 1948 accepted as Cypraecassis testiculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Cypraecassis minima P. A. Bernard, 1984 accepted as Cypraecassis testiculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Cypraecassis neglecta A. E. Verrill, 1949 accepted as Cypraecassis testiculus (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Subgenus Cypraecassis (Cypraecassis) Stutchbury, 1837 represented as Cypraecassis Stutchbury, 1837
- Species Cypraecassis (Cypraecassis) wilmae Kreipl & Alf, 2000 accepted as Cypraecassis (Levenia) wilmae Kreipl & Alf, 2000 represented as Cypraecassis wilmae Kreipl & Alf, 2000
- Species Cypraecassis (Cypraecassis) rufa (Linnaeus, 1758) represented as Cypraecassis rufa (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Cypraecassis (Cypraecassis) tenuis (W. Wood, 1828) represented as Cypraecassis tenuis (W. Wood, 1828)
- Species Cypraecassis (Cypraecassis) testiculus (Linnaeus, 1758) represented as Cypraecassis testiculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Subgenus Cypraecassis (Levenia) J. E. Gray, 1847 represented as Cypraecassis Stutchbury, 1837
- Species Cypraecassis (Levenia) coarctata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825) represented as Cypraecassis coarctata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
- Species Cypraecassis (Levenia) wilmae Kreipl & Alf, 2000 represented as Cypraecassis wilmae Kreipl & Alf, 2000
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Stutchbury S. (1837). On <i>Cypraecassis</i>, a proposed new genus of univalve shells, for the reception of certain species of Brugière's genus <i>Cassis</i>. <em>The Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy and Meteorology.</em> new ser., 1: 214-217., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2334726 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cypraecassis Stutchbury, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204021 on 2026-01-31
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Nomenclature
original description
Stutchbury S. (1837). On <i>Cypraecassis</i>, a proposed new genus of univalve shells, for the reception of certain species of Brugière's genus <i>Cassis</i>. <em>The Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy and Meteorology.</em> new ser., 1: 214-217., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2334726 [details]
original description (of Cypraeicassis Cossmann, 1903) Cossmann, M. (1903). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Cinquième livraison. Paris, The author and de Rudeval. 215 pp., 9 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36704039
page(s): 129 [details]
original description (of Levenia J. E. Gray, 1847) Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyms and types. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 137 [details]
basis of record Parth, M. (2000). A new <i>Cassis</i> from Western Australia. <em>La Conchiglia.</em> 294-295: 87-93. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Cypraeicassis Cossmann, 1903) Cossmann, M. (1903). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Cinquième livraison. Paris, The author and de Rudeval. 215 pp., 9 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36704039
page(s): 129 [details]
original description (of Levenia J. E. Gray, 1847) Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyms and types. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 137 [details]
basis of record Parth, M. (2000). A new <i>Cassis</i> from Western Australia. <em>La Conchiglia.</em> 294-295: 87-93. [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
