WoRMS name details
Cypraea (Ocellaria) Weinkauff, 1881
738692 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738692)
unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Ocellaria Ramond, 1801 [Porifera])
Subgenus
Cypraea spurca Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by subsequent designation)
- Species Cypraea (Ocellaria) spurca Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Weinkauff, H.C. (1881). Catalog der Gattung <i>Cypraea</i> Linné. <em>Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 8: 133-157., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16287113
page(s): 148 [details]
page(s): 148 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cypraea (Ocellaria) Weinkauff, 1881. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738692 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Weinkauff, H.C. (1881). Catalog der Gattung <i>Cypraea</i> Linné. <em>Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 8: 133-157., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16287113
page(s): 148 [details]
page(s): 148 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. <em>Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks.</em> 644 pp.
page(s): 237 [details]
page(s): 237 [details]
