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Mauritia histrio (Gmelin, 1791)

AphiaID

216870 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216870)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Mauritia Troschel, 1863

Original name

Cypraea histrio Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Cypraea (Aricia) histrio Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Cypraea arlequina Mörch, 1852 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Cypraea histrio Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Cypraea oculata Röding, 1798 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Cypraea reticulata Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)

Cypraea undosa Röding, 1798 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Mauritia (Arabica) histrio (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Mauritia (Arabica) histrio var. duploreticulata Coen, 1949 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Mauritia histrio var. elongata Raybaudi, 1985 · unaccepted > unavailable name (name established at...)

name established at infrasubspecific rank

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Subspecies Mauritia histrio histrio (Gmelin, 1791)
Subspecies Mauritia histrio jadeni Thach, 2023
Subspecies Mauritia histrio macromaculata Erdmann, 2025
Subspecies Mauritia histrio vanmuii Thach, 2025
Subspecies Mauritia histrio westralis (Iredale, 1935)
Variety Mauritia histrio var. elongata Raybaudi, 1985 accepted as Mauritia histrio (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > unavailable name, name established at infrasubspecific rank)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Cypraea histrio 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. (2026). MolluscaBase. Mauritia histrio (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216870 on 2026-03-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-08-08 05:35:53Z

created

Onyango, Eunice

1998-05-20 07:48:52Z

changed

Fondo, Esther

2010-10-02 22:08:23Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cypraea histrio 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]

original description (of Cypraea reticulata 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
page(s): 3420. [details]

original description (of Mauritia (Arabica) histrio var. duploreticulata Coen, 1949) Coen, G. (1949). Nota su alcune forme nuove di Cypreacea. Historia Naturalis. 3(1): 13-18.
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original description (of Cypraea oculata Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 23. [details]

original description (of Cypraea undosa Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 26. [details]

original description (of Cypraea arlequina Mörch, 1852) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Tertii Eques. Fasc. 1, Cephalophora, 170 pp. [1852]; Fasc. 2, Acephala, Annulata, Cirripedia, Echinodermata, 74 [+2] pp. [1853]. Hafniae [Copenhagen]: L. Klein. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12921
page(s): 114. [details]

basis of record Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129-144, 17 pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.140610 [details]

Other

additional source Schilder, F. A.; Schilder, M. (1938-1939). Prodrome of a monograph on living Cypraeidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 23(3): 109-180 [15 November 1938]; 23(4): 181-252 [15 March 1939].
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additional source Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 644 pp.
page(s): 312. [details]