Erosaria
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| Five views of a shell of Erosaria erosa, the type species of the genus Erosaria | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Subfamily: | Erosariinae |
| Genus: | Erosaria F. H. Troschel, 1863[1] |
| Type species | |
| Erosaria erosa erosa Linnaeus, C., 1758 | |
Erosaria is a genus of sea snails, cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Species
Species within the genus Erosaria include:
- Erosaria acicularis (Gmelin, 1791)[2] - the Atlantic yellow cowry
- Erosaria albuginosa (Gray, 1825)
- Erosaria beckii (Gaskoin, 1836)
- Erosaria bellatrix Lorenz, 2009[2]
- Erosaria bernardi (Richard, 1974)
- Erosaria boivinii (Kiener, 1843)
- Erosaria cernica (Sowerby, 1870)
- Erosaria citrina (Gray, 1825)
- Erosaria eburnea Barnes, 1924
- Erosaria englerti (Summers & Burgess, 1965)
- Erosaria erosa (Linnaeus, 1758),[2] the type species
- Erosaria gangranosa (Dill.)[2]
- Erosaria helvola (Linnaeus)[2]
- Erosaria irrorata (Gray, 1828)
- Erosaria labrolineata (Gaskoin, 1849)
- Erosaria lamarckii (Gray, 1825)[2]
- Erosaria macandrewi (Sowerby, 1870)
- Erosaria marginalis Dillwyn[2]
- Erosaria miliaris (Gmelin, 1791)
- Erosaria nebrites Melvill[2]
- Erosaria ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Erosaria ostergaardi (Dall, 1921)
- Erosaria poraria (Linnaeus, 1758)[2]
- Erosaria sinensis Ma, 1997
- Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758)[2]
- Erosaria sublitorea Lorenz, 1997
- Erosaria thomasi (Crosse, 1865)
- Erosaria turdus (Lamarck, 1810)[2]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Erosaria caputserpentis:[2] synonym of Monetaria caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Erosaria guttata (Gmelin, 1791) : synonym of Perisserosa guttata (Gmelin, 1791)
- Erosaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758) : synonym of Nucleolaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
- ↑ Troschel F. H. (1863). Gebiss Schneck. 1: 205.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 WoRMS (2009). Erosaria Troschel, 1863. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137876 on 23 August 2011
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