original description
Lamarck [J.-B. M. de]. (1810). Sur la détermination des espèces parmi les animaux sans vertèbres, et particulièrement parmi les Mollusques testacés. <em>Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 15: 20-40; [Suite des espèces du genre Cône] 263-286, 422-454; [Suite du genre Porcelaine] 16: 89-114., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3546607
page(s): 16: 103 [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment It is not certain whether Lamarck (1810) established a junior homonym of Cypraea oniscus Röding, 1798, or whether he used Röding's name with a different taxonomic extension. Cypraea oniscus Lamarck, 1810, has consistently been treated as a separate name, a junior homonym of Cypraea oniscus Röding, 1798, and was renamed Triviella porcellio Cate, 1979. Cate accepted as "possible type" a specimen in the Tervuren Museum which, historically, is unlikely to be part of Lamarck's type series. [details]