''Macrocypraea'' is a
genus of large
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
s, cowries,
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the
family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Species
Species within the genus ''Macrocypraea'' include:
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Macrocypraea cervinetta
''Macrocypraea cervinetta'', the little deer cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Macrocypraea cervinetta (Kiener, 1844). Accessed t ...
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(Kiener
Louis Charles Kiener (31 July 1799 – 24 July 1881) was a French malacologist born in Paris.
He was the author of the 12-volume ''Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire naturelle ...
, 1843)
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Macrocypraea cervus
''Macrocypraea cervus'', common name the Atlantic deer cowry, is a species of large sea snail, a very large cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Distribution
This species is mainly distributed in the tropical ...
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( Linnaeus, 1771)
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Macrocypraea mammoth''
Simone & Cavallari, 2020
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Macrocypraea zebra
''Macrocypraea zebra'', common name the measled cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Subspecies
*''Macrocypraea zebra dissimilis'', Schilder, Franz Alfred, 1924 ''
( Linnaeus, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...
)
References
* Petuch E.J. & Drolshagen M. (2011) Compendium of Florida fossil shells, volume 1. Wellington, Florida: MdM Publishing. 412 pp
External links
Simone L.R.L. & Cavallari D.C. (2020). A new species of Macrocypraea (Gastropoda, Cypraeidae) from Trindade Island, Brazil, including phenotypic differentiation from remaining congeneric species. PLOS ONE. 15(1): e0225963.
Cypraeidae
Gastropod genera
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