original description
(of Cypraea (Zonarina) Sacco, 1894 †) Sacco, F. (1894). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XV. (Cypraeidae, ed Amphiperasidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 74 pp., 3 pl., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45381
page(s): 23, 24 [details]
basis of record
Dolin L. & Lozouet P. (2004). Nouvelles espèces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur de l'Aquitaine (Sud-Ouest de la France). Partie 3. Cypraeidae et Ovulidae. <em>Cossmanniana.</em> Hors-série 4: 1-164. [details]
additional source
Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. <em>Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks.</em> 644 pp.
page(s): 403 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type species When Sacco established Zonarina, he included the single species Cypraea pinguis, with two varieties, longovulina and spiratina, both Sacco, 1894, and Dolin & Lozouet [2004, Cossmanniana, hors ser. 4: 39] have cited Cypraea pinguis longovulina Sacco, 1894, as the type species by OD. However, under Art. 68.3, C. pinguis is the type species by monotypy ("regardless of any cited subspecies"). [details]