Leporicypraea

Leporicypraea
A live individual of Leporicypraea mappa with the mantle mostly retracted
Five views of a shell of Leporicypraea mappa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Leporicypraea Iredale, 1930
Type species
Cypraea mappa Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms [1]
Cypraea (Leporicypraea)Iredale, 1930

Leporicypraea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. ^{[2] [1]}

Species within this genus are commonly found in the Indo-Pacific region.

Species

Species of Leporicypraea include: ^[3]

• Leporicypraea geographica (Schilder & Schilder, 1933)
• Leporicypraea mappa (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Leporicypraea rosea (Gray, 1824)
• Leporicypraea valentia (Perry, 1811)

Nomen dubium

• Leporicypraea alga(Perry, 1811)

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Leporicypraea Iredale, 1930. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391307 on 2021-04-29
2. Soriano, J. L. (2006). "Consideraciones taxonómicas sobre la familia Cypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda), con una nueva propuesta de clasificación supragenérica" (PDF). Spira (in Spanish). 2 (1). Associación Catalana de Malacologia: 41–62. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2009-09-25.
3. ONIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed 26 September 2009

External links

• Iredale, T. (1930). Queensland molluscan notes, No. 2. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 10(1): 73-88, pl. 9