World Register of Deep-Sea species - Cypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815

Deep-Sea taxon details

Cypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815

Cypraeidae pattern of diversity

AphiaID

23022 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23022)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Cypraeoidea Rafinesque, 1815

Direct children (9)

Ordering

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Subfamily Cypraeinae Rafinesque, 1815
1. Tribe Mauritiini Steadman & Cotton, 1946
  1. Genus Mauritia Troschel, 1863
Subfamily Erosariinae Schilder, 1924
1. Genus Naria Gray, 1837
2. Genus Erosaria Troschel, 1863 accepted as Naria Gray, 1837
Subfamily Luriinae Schilder, 1932
1. Tribe Luriini Schilder, 1932
  1. Genus Luria Jousseaume, 1884

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Rafinesque, C. S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. [Book]. 1-224, (self-published) Palermo., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98061z.r=rafinesque.langEN [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Cypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23022 on 2024-04-23

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Cypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23022 on 2024-04-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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db_admin

2009-03-28 21:19:53Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2012-11-24 01:20:16Z

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Moretzsohn, Fabio

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original description Rafinesque, C. S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. [Book]. 1-224, (self-published) Palermo., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98061z.r=rafinesque.langEN [details]

context source (PeRMS) Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. Revista de Biologia Tropical. 51(supplement 3): 225-284. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25127200 [details] Available for editors

additional source Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Lorenz F. (2002) New worldwide cowries. Descriptions of new taxa and revisions of selected groups of living Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur-Cismar 20: 1-292, pls 1-40. [details]

additional source Lorenz F. & Hubert A. (2000) A guide to worldwide cowries. Edition 2. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 584 pp. [details]

additional source Meyer, C. (2003). Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the Tropics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 79: 401-459. [details]

additional source Schilder, M. & Schilder, F. A. (1971). A catalogue of living and fossil cowries. A taxonomy and bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea (Gastropoda Prosobranchia. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Mémoires, Deuxième Series. 85: 1-246. [details]

additional source Burgess C.M. (1985). Cowries of the world. Cape Town: Gordon Verhoef, Seacomber Publications. xiv + 289 pp. [details]

additional source Moretzsohn, F. (2014). Cypraeidae: How well-inventoried is the best-known seashell family?. American Malacological Bulletin. 32(2): 278-289., available online at https://doi.org/10.4003/006.032.0219
page(s): 278-289 [details]

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

additional source Helfer, J. R. (1946). The classification of Cypraeidae. The Nautilus. 60(2): 49-53., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8523730 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Classification Alternative views on the classification of Cypraeidae range from uniting most of the species in the genus Cypraea (e.g. Ranson, 1967) to splitting in several subfamilies and dozens of genera (e.g. Schilder & Schilder, 1938 and subsequent papers) for less than 250 extant species). There is no doubt that the family has an old evolutionary history, dating back to the Jurassic, so that existing species are likely to show enough divergence so as to support some taxonomic splitting.
The classification of Lorenz (2002) largely coincides with that of Meyer (2003) based on molecular data, so that it was the basis for the classification in subfamilies in Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).
Subfamilies are here listed as alternate representation and the genera are direct child taxa of the family Cypraeidae. [details]

Language	Name
English	cowries	[details]
German	PorzellanschneckenKaurischnecken	[details]
Japanese	タカラガイ科	[details]

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Cypraeidae pattern of diversity