Staphylaea staphylaea

Staphylaea staphylaea
Staphylaea staphylaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Staphylaea
Species: S. staphylaea
Binomial name
Staphylaea staphylaea
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Cypraea staphylaea Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym)
  • Cypraea atrata Gray, J.E., 1825
  • Cypraea deprava Dautzenberg, Ph., 1903
  • Pustularia depravata Dautzenberg, Ph., 1903
  • Cypraea albicilla Sulliotti, G.R., 1924
  • Cypraea expallescens Dautzenberg, Ph. & J.L. Bouge, 1933
  • Staphylaea fortis Coen, G.S., 1949
  • Staphylaea grisea Coen, G.S., 1949
  • Staphylaea lactea Coen, G.S., 1949
  • Staphylaea nitida Coen, G.S., 1949

Staphylaea staphylaea (common name : the stippled cowry) is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]

There is one subspecies : Staphylaea staphylaea laevigata Dautz., 1932 [3]

Contents

Description

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores , the East Coast of South Africa, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia, South Mozambique, Tanzania and in Polynesia and Australia.

References

  1. ^ a b Staphylaea staphylaea (Linnaeus). WoRMS (2009). Staphylaea staphylaea (Linnaeus). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216890 on 23 October 2010.
  2. ^ Gastropods com : Staphylaea staphylaea staphylaea; accessed : 23 October 2010
  3. ^ Gastropods.com : Staphylaea staphylaea laevigata , accessed : 23 October 2010

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