WoRMS taxon details
Staphylaea limacina (Lamarck, 1810)
216892 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216892)
accepted
Species
Cypraea (Staphylaea) limacina Lamarck, 1810 · unaccepted
Cypraea limacina Lamarck, 1810 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Purperosa facifer Iredale, 1935 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Subspecies Staphylaea limacina interstincta (W. Wood, 1828)
- Subspecies Staphylaea limacina limacina (Lamarck, 1810)
- Subspecies Staphylaea limacina facifer (Iredale, 1935) accepted as Staphylaea limacina limacina (Lamarck, 1810)
- Subspecies Staphylaea limacina clarissa Lorenz, 1989 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Subspecies Staphylaea limacina ebur Coen, 1949 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Subspecies Staphylaea limacina nitens Coen, 1949 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine
(of Cypraea limacina Lamarck, 1810) 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: 101 [details]
page(s): 16: 101 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Staphylaea limacina (Lamarck, 1810). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216892 on 2025-03-31
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Cypraea limacina Lamarck, 1810) 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: 101 [details]
original description (of Purperosa facifer Iredale, 1935) Iredale, T. (1935). Australian cowries. <em>The Australian Zoologist.</em> 8(2): 96-135, pls. 8-9 [28 June 1935]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38709705
page(s): 119, pl. 8 figs 6a-b [details]
basis of record Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. <em>Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks.</em> 644 pp.
page(s): 226-228 [details]
page(s): 16: 101 [details]
original description (of Purperosa facifer Iredale, 1935) Iredale, T. (1935). Australian cowries. <em>The Australian Zoologist.</em> 8(2): 96-135, pls. 8-9 [28 June 1935]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38709705
page(s): 119, pl. 8 figs 6a-b [details]
basis of record Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. <em>Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks.</em> 644 pp.
page(s): 226-228 [details]
Other
additional source
Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129-144, 17 pls. [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) (from synonym Cypraea limacina Lamarck, 1810)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Staphylaea limacina)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Cypraea limacina Lamarck, 1810)
To Malacopics (Staphylaea limacina (Lamarck, 181) Australia, Western Australia, collected 1987, ex...
To Malacopics (Staphylaea limacina (Lamarck, 181) Philippines, Zamboanga Peninsula, ex coll. J. Tr...
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Cypraea limacina Lamarck, 1810)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) (from synonym Cypraea limacina Lamarck, 1810)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Staphylaea limacina)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Cypraea limacina Lamarck, 1810)
To Malacopics (Staphylaea limacina (Lamarck, 181) Australia, Western Australia, collected 1987, ex...
To Malacopics (Staphylaea limacina (Lamarck, 181) Philippines, Zamboanga Peninsula, ex coll. J. Tr...
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Cypraea limacina Lamarck, 1810)
