Cypraeidae

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

FAMILY

Published in

Rafinesque, Constantine S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l’univers et des corps organisés. Palerme. [Unspecified Publisher]: 1-224.

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Mollusca

class

Gastropoda

order

Littorinimorpha

family

Cypraeidae

Name

Homonyms

Cypraeidae

Common names

cowry in English

cowries in English

タカラガイ in Japanese

Bibliographic References

1. Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. <i>Malacologia</i>. 47(1-2): 1-397 ISBN 3-925919-72-4.
2. Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey.
3. Burgess, C.M. (1985) Cowries of the World. Gordon verhoef, Seacomber Publications, South Africa, Cape Town. XIV + 289 pp.
4. Lorenz F. & Hubert A. (2000) A guide to worldwide cowries. Edition 2. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 584 pp.
5. Lorenz F. (2002) New worldwide cowries. Descriptions of new taxa and revisions of selected groups of living Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). <i>Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur-Cismar</i> 20: 1-292, pls 1-40.
6. Meyer C. 2003. Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics. <i>Biological Journal of the Linnean Society</i>, 79: 401-459.
7. Moretzsohn, F. (2014). Cypraeidae: How well-inventoried is the best-known seashell family?. <em>American Malacological Bulletin.</em> 32(2): 278-289. 10.4003/006.032.0219
8. 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