''Ovula'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
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s,
marine gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the
family
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Ovulidae
Ovulidae, common names the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries, is a family (biology), family of small to large predatory or parasitic sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and the co ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Ovula'' include:
*''
Ovula costellata''
Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1810
*''
Ovula ishibashii''
( Kuroda, 1928)
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Ovula ovum''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
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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'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
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Synonyms
* ''Ovula (Neosimnia)'' P. Fischer, 1884: synonym of ''
Neosimnia'' P. Fischer, 1884 (original rank)
* ''Ovula acicularis'' sensu Tryon, 1885 not Lamarck, 1810: synonym of ''
Simnia spelta'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
* ''Ovula acicularis'' Lamarck, 1810: synonym of ''
Cymbovula acicularis'' (Lamarck, 1810) (original combination)
* ''Ovula adamsi'' Weinkauff, 1881: synonym of ''
Procalpurnus semistriatus'' (Pease, 1863)
* ''Ovula adamsii'' (Dunker, 1877): synonym of ''
Phenacovolva rosea'' (A. Adams, 1855)
* ''Ovula adriatica'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1828): synonym of ''Aperiovula adriatica'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1828): synonym of ''
Pseudosimnia adriatica'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1828) (unaccepted generic combination)
* ''Ovula alba'' Perry, 1811: synonym of ''Ovula ovum'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Ovula angulosa'' Lamarck, 1822: synonym of ''Ovula costellata'' Lamarck, 1810
* ''Ovula antillarum'' (Reeve, 1865): synonym of ''
Simnialena uniplicata'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)
* ''Ovula aspera'' Perry, 1811: synonym of ''
Volva volva'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Ovula birostris'' (Linnaeus, 1767): synonym of ''
Phenacovolva birostris'' (Linnaeus, 1767)
* ''Ovula birostris'' sensu Tryon, 1885 not Linnaeus, 1767: synonym of ''
Simnia aperta'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)
* ''Ovula blainvillei'' Leach, 1847: synonym of ''
Simnia patula'' (Pennant, 1777)
* ''Ovula blanville'' Leach, 1847: synonym of ''
Simnia patula'' (Pennant, 1777)
* ''Ovula bullata'' (Gould, 1861): synonym of ''
Globovula cavanaghi'' (Iredale, 1931)
* ''Ovula bullata'' sensu Tryon, 1885 not A. Adams & Reeve, 1848: synonym of ''
Sandalia triticea'' (Lamarck, 1810)
* ''Ovula caledonica'' Crosse, 1871: synonym of ''
Diminovula caledonica'' (Crosse, 1871) (original combination)
* ''Ovula canadiensis'' sensu Tryon, 1885 not Weinkauff, 1882: synonym of ''
Simnialena uniplicata'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)
* ''Ovula carnea'' (Poiret, 1789): synonym of ''
Pseudosimnia carnea'' (Poiret, 1789)
* ''Ovula carolinensis'' Mörch, 1877: synonym of ''
Simnialena uniplicata'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)
* ''Ovula cepula'' Schumacher, 1817: synonym of ''
Pseudosimnia carnea'' (Poiret, 1789) (synonym)
* ''Ovula columba'' Schubert & J. A. Wagner, 1829: synonym of ''Ovula costellata'' Lamarck, 1810
* ''Ovula cristallina'' Kiener, 1843: synonym of ''
Diminovula alabaster'' (Reeve, 1865)
* ''Ovula cumingi'' Mörch, 1850: synonym of ''
Diminovula concinna'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1848)
* ''Ovula cygnea'' Röding, 1798: synonym of ''Ovula ovum'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Ovula deflexa'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849): synonym of ''
Naviculavolva deflexa'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)
* ''Ovula dentata'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1807: synonym of ''
Pseudosimnia carnea'' (Poiret, 1789) (synonym)
* ''Ovula dentata'' sensu Angas, 1887 not G. B. Sowerby II, 1848: synonym of ''
Crenavolva traillii'' (A. Adams, 1856)
* ''Ovula formosa'' sensu Verco, 1935 not G. B. Sowerby II, 1848: synonym of ''
Cuspivolva platysia'' (C. N. Cate, 1973)
* ''Ovula haliotidea'' Blainville, 1825: synonym of ''
Pseudosimnia adriatica'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1828) (synonym)
* ''Ovula hervieri'' Hedley, 1899: synonym of ''
Habuprionovolva hervieri'' (Hedley, 1899) (original combination)
* ''Ovula hirasei'' Pilsbry, 1913: synonym of ''
Quasisimnia hirasei'' (Pilsbry, 1913)
* ''Ovula hordacea'' Kiener, 1843: synonym of ''Neosimnia avena'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833): synonym of
Simnia avena (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
* ''Ovula inflexa'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832): synonym of ''
Simnialena rufa'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
* ''Ovula insculpta'' Odhner, 1919: synonym of ''
Phenacovolva insculpta'' (Odhner, 1919)
* ''Ovula intermedia'' sensu Tryon, 1885 not G. B. Sowerby I, 1828: synonym of ''
Simnia spelta'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
* ''Ovula ishibashii'' auctt.: synonym of ''Ovula isibasii'' (Kuroda, 1929) (unjustified emendation)
* ''Ovula lactea'' Lamarck, 1810: synonym of ''
Procalpurnus lacteus'' (Lamarck, 1810) (original combination)
* ''Ovula lactea'' sensu Tryon, 1885 not Lamarck, 1810: synonym of ''
Diminovula alabaster'' (Reeve, 1865)
* ''Ovula loebbeckeana'' Weinkauff, 1881: synonym of ''
Simnia loebbeckeana'' (Weinkauff, 1881) (original combination)
* ''Ovula lutea'' Pallary, 1900: synonym of ''Neosimnia spelta'' (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of ''
Simnia spelta'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Ovula margarita'' sensu A. Adams, 1854 not G. B. Sowerby I, 1828: synonym of ''
Diminovula concinna'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1848)
* ''Ovula nigerina'' Dufo, 1840: synonym of ''
Crenavolva striatula'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1828)
* ''Ovula nipponensis'' Pilsbry, 1913: synonym of ''
Testudovolva nipponensis'' (Pilsbry, 1913)
* ''Ovula obsoleta'' Locard, 1891: synonym of ''
Simnia spelta'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
* ''Ovula oviformis'' Lamarck, 1801: synonym of ''Ovula ovum'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Ovula papyracea'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1807: synonym of ''Ovula ovum'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Ovula pennantiana'' Leach, 1847: synonym of ''
Simnia patula'' (Pennant, 1777)
* ''Ovula perla'' Röding, 1798: synonym of ''
Calpurnus verrucosus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
* ''Ovula pharetra'' Perry, 1811: synonym of ''
Cyphoma gibbosum
The flamingo tongue snail (''Cyphoma gibbosum'') is a species of small but brightly colored sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.
Taxonomy
A 2017 DNA analysis confirmed that ...
'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Ovula philippinarum'' sensu Tryon, 1885 not G. B. Sowerby II, 1849: synonym of ''
Phenacovolva rosea'' (A. Adams, 1855)
* ''Ovula pudica'' sensu Tryon, 1885 not A. Adams, 1855: synonym of ''
Diminovula caledonica'' (Crosse, 1871)
* ''Ovula punctata'' Duclos, 1828: synonym of ''
Diminovula punctata'' (Duclos, 1828) (original combination)
* ''Ovula pygmaea'' G. B. Sowerby I, 1828: synonym of ''Ovula ovum'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Ovula rhodia'' (A. Adams, 1854): synonym of ''
Sandalia triticea'' (Lamarck, 1810)
* ''Ovula rosea'' Pallary, 1900: synonym of ''Neosimnia spelta'' (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of ''
Simnia spelta'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Ovula rosea'' Rossiter, 1883: synonym of ''
Aclyvolva lanceolata'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)
* ''Ovula roseocarnea'' Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883: synonym of ''Neosimnia spelta'' (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of ''
Simnia spelta'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Ovula rostrata'' Mörch, 1877: synonym of ''
Cyphoma gibbosum
The flamingo tongue snail (''Cyphoma gibbosum'') is a species of small but brightly colored sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.
Taxonomy
A 2017 DNA analysis confirmed that ...
'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Ovula rufula'' Mollerat, 1890: synonym of ''
Pseudosimnia carnea'' (Poiret, 1789)
* ''Ovula seccato'' G. B. Sowerby I, 1834: synonym of ''
Cyphoma intermedium'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1828)
* ''Ovula semperi'' Weinkauff, 1881: synonym of ''
Prosimnia semperi'' (Weinkauff, 1881) (original combination)
* ''Ovula sowerbyana'' Weinkauff, 1881: synonym of ''
Phenacovolva brevirostris'' (Schumacher, 1817)
* ''Ovula sowerbyana'' sensu Tryon, 1885 not Weinkauff, 1881: synonym of ''
Simnia spelta'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
* ''Ovula spelta'' (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of ''
Simnia spelta'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Ovula striata'' Lamarck, 1810: synonym of ''
Volva striata'' (Lamarck, 1810)
* ''Ovula textoria'' Röding, 1798: synonym of ''
Volva volva'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Ovula tortilis'' Deshayes, 1844: synonym of ''Ovula angulosa'' Lamarck, 1822: synonym of ''
Ovula costellata'' Lamarck, 1810
* ''Ovula triticea'' Lamarck, 1810: synonym of ''
Sandalia triticea'' (Lamarck, 1810)
* ''Ovula triticea'' Lamarck, 1810 sensu Payraudeau, 1826: synonym of ''Simnia nicaeensi''s Risso, 1826: synonym of
Simnia spelta (Linnaeus, 1758) (misapplication)
* ''Ovula triticea'' P. J. Fischer, 1927: synonym of ''
Prosimnia semperi'' (Weinkauff, 1881)
* ''Ovula tuberculosa'' Gray & G. B. Sowerby II, 1839: synonym of ''
Crenavolva striatula'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1828)
* ''Ovula uniplicata'' sensu Tryon, 1885 not G. B. Sowerby II, 1848: synonym of ''Neosimnia loebbeckeana'' (Weinkauff, 1881): synonym of ''
Simnia loebbeckeana'' (Weinkauff, 1881)
References
External links
Herrmannsen, A. N. (1846-1852). Indicis Generum Malacozoorum primordia. Fischer, Cassel. Vol. 1: i-xxviii, 1-637 pp. Sowerby, G. B., I. (1828). On the recent species of the genus Ovulum. Zoological Journal. 4: 145-162
Ovulidae
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