Leporicypraea

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Leporicypraea
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A live individual of Leporicypraea mappa with the mantle mostly retracted
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Five views of a shell of Leporicypraea mappa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Leporicypraea
Iredale, 1930
Type species
Cypraea mappaLinnaeus, 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]

Contents

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

Species

Species of Leporicypraea include: [3]

Nomen dubium

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cypraeidae</span> Family of gastropods

Cypraeidae, commonly named the cowries, is a taxonomic family of small to large sea snails. These are marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and cowry allies.

<i>Pustularia</i> (gastropod) Genus of gastropods

Pustularia is a small genus of medium-sized sea snails or cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pustulariinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

<i>Leporicypraea mappa</i> Species of gastropod

Leporicypraea mappa, common name the map cowry, is a species of large sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

<i>Naria</i> (gastropod) Genus of gastropods

Naria is a genus of sea snails, cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Erosariinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

<i>Blasicrura</i> Genus of gastropods

Blasicrura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

<i>Cribrarula</i> Genus of gastropods

Cribrarula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

<i>Erronea</i> Genus of gastropods

Erronea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

<i>Lyncina</i> Genus of gastropods

Lyncina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

<i>Monetaria</i> Genus of gastropods

Monetaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

<i>Palmadusta</i> Genus of gastropods

Palmadusta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

<i>Diminovula</i> Genus of gastropods

Diminovula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Eocypraeinae of the family Ovulidae.

<i>Cleotrivia</i> Genus of gastropods

Cleotrivia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.

<i>Trivirostra</i> Genus of gastropods

Trivirostra is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.

<i>Phasianotrochus</i> Genus of gastropods

Phasianotrochus is a genus of sea snails. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

<i>Perisserosa</i> Genus of gastropods

Perisserosa is a genus of sea snails, cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

<i>Eclogavena</i> Genus of gastropods

Eclogavena is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

<i>Eclogavena quadrimaculata</i> Species of gastropod

Eclogavena quadrimaculata, the four-spotted cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

<i>Notocypraea</i> Genus of gastropods

Notocypraea is a genus of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

<i>Wallucina</i> Genus of bivalve

Wallucina is a chemosymbiotic bivalve genus in the subfamily Lucininae of the family Lucinidae.

Xenuroturris legitima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.

References

  1. 1 2 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). Associación Catalana de Malacologia. 2 (1): 41–62.
  3. ↑ ONIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database. Accessed 26 September 2009


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