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Cypraea  Linnaeus, 1758
Taxonomic Serial No.: 72742

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumMollusca  – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks  
                ClassGastropoda Cuvier, 1797 – gastropods, slugs, snails, escargots, gastéropodes, limaces, caracol, caramujo, lesma  
                   SubclassOrthogastropoda   
                      InfraclassCaenogastropoda   
                         SuperorderLatrogastropoda   
                            OrderCypraeida   
                               SuperfamilyCypraeoidea Rafinesque, 1815  
                                  FamilyCypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815  
                                     GenusCypraea Linnaeus, 1758  
    Direct Children:  
                                        SpeciesCypraea albuginosa Gray, 1825  
                                        SpeciesCypraea annettae Dall, 1909  
                                        SpeciesCypraea arabicula Lamarck, 1811  
                                        SpeciesCypraea cervinetta Kiener, 1843  
                                        SpeciesCypraea cervus Linnaeus, 1771 – atlantic deer cowrie 
                                        SpeciesCypraea cinerea Gmelin, 1791 – atlantic gray cowrie 
                                        SpeciesCypraea isabellamexicana Stearns, 1893  
                                        SpeciesCypraea mus Linnaeus, 1758  
                                        SpeciesCypraea nigropunctata Gray, 1828  
                                        SpeciesCypraea robertsi Hidalgo, 1906  
                                        SpeciesCypraea spadicea Swainson, 1836 – chestnut cowrie 
                                        SpeciesCypraea spurca Linnaeus, 1758  
                                        SpeciesCypraea surinamensis G. Perry, 1811 – surinam cowrie 
                                        SpeciesCypraea zebra Linnaeus, 1758 – measled cowrie 
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Cypraea   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Higo, Shun'ichi, Paul Callomon, and Yoshihiro Goto   
  Publication Date: 1999   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan: Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda   
  Page(s): 749   
  Publisher: Elle Scientific Publications   
  Publication Place: Osaka-fu, Japan   
  ISBN/ISSN: 4-901172-01-8   
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  Reference for: Cypraea   
       

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