''Cypraeerato'' is a
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of small
sea snail
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s,
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gastropod
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mollusc
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s in the
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Eratoidae
Eratoidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Cypraeoidea .MolluscaBase (2018). Eratoidae Gill, 1871. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=t ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cypraeerato Schilder, 1933. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596847 on 2020-10-06]
Nomenclature
Under ICZN Art. 13.1, the name ''Cypraeerato'' is not available from Schilder (1932), who fixed a type species, but did not provide a description.
Species
Species within the genus ''Cypraeerato'' include :
* ''
Cypraeerato bimaculata''
(Tate, 1878)
* ''
Cypraeerato boucheti''
(Drivas & Jay, 1986)
* ''
Cypraeerato geralia''
(C. N. Cate, 1977)
* ''
Cypraeerato margarita''
Fehse, 2018
* ''
Cypraeerato nitida''
Fehse, 2018
* ''
Cypraeerato rangiroa''
Fehse, 2012
* ''
Cypraeerato splendida''
Fehse, 2017
* ''
Cypraeerato stalagmia''
(C. N. Cate, 1975)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Cypraeerato gemma''
(Bavay, 1917): synonym of ''
Eratoena gemma''
(Bavay, 1917)
References
* Cernohorsky, W. O. "Fossil and Recent Cypraeacea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of New Zealand with descriptions of new species." Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum (1971): 103-129.
* Fehse, D. "Contributions to the knowledge of the Eratoidae. XIV. New Eratoids from Papua New Guinea including Kavieng, New Ireland." Neptunea 4 (2018).
External links
Salvat, Bernard, and Jean Tröndlé. "Biogéographie des mollusques marins de Polynésie française." Revue d'écologie (2017).
Eratoidae
Gastropod genera
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