MolluscaBase - Naria poraria (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Naria poraria (Linnaeus, 1758)

AphiaID

1075025 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1075025)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Naria J. E. Gray, 1837

Original name

Cypraea poraria Linnaeus, 1758

Synonymised names

Cypraea (Luponia) poraria Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Cypraea (Luponia) poraria var. albinella Melvill & Standen, 1895 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Cypraea (Luponia) poraria var. insignis Dautzenberg, 1903 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Cypraea coeca Röding, 1798 · unaccepted

Cypraea poraria Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted (superseded combination)

Cypraea poraria poraria Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted > superseded rank

Cypraea poraria var. kauaiensis Melvill, 1888 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Cypraea poraria var. vibex Kenyon, 1902 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Cypraea scarabaeus Bory de Saint Vincent, 1827 · unaccepted

Cypraea wilhelmina Kenyon, 1897 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Erosaria poraria (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted (superseded combination)

Erosaria poraria theoreta Iredale, 1939 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Erosaria wilhelmina (Kenyon, 1897) · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Cypraea poraria Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
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Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Naria poraria (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1075025 on 2026-06-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2018-03-13 13:49:41Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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original description (of Cypraea poraria Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 724 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Erosaria poraria theoreta Iredale, 1939) Iredale, T. (1939). Australian Cowries: Part II. Australian Zoologist. 9(3): 297-323, 3 pl., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38926931#page/359/mode/1up
page(s): 305, pl. 27 figs 11-12 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Cypraea scarabaeus Bory de Saint Vincent, 1827) Bory de St.-Vincent [J.B.G.M.]. (1827). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers. Tome 1: part 29, pp. 83-84, 133-180 [Livraison 98, 27 September 1827]. Paris: Vve Agasse [Date after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 207]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/114203
page(s): 164 [reference to pl. 336 fig. 4]; note: name attributed by Bory de St Vincent to "Val." [= Valmont de Bomare] [details]

original description (of Cypraea coeca Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 25 [details]

original description (of Cypraea poraria var. kauaiensis Melvill, 1888) Melvill, J. C. (1888). A survey of the genus Cypraea (Linn.) its nomenclature, geographical distribution and distinctive affinites; with descriptions of two new species and several varieties. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. ser. 4, 1: 184-252., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10266543
page(s): 226 [details]

original description (of Cypraea (Luponia) poraria var. albinella Melvill & Standen, 1895) Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1895-1896). Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of species. Journal of Conchology. 8: 84–132, pl. 3 [8(4): 84-128, pl. 3, 15 October 1895; 8(5): 129-133, 1 January 1896]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31980663
page(s): 113. [details]

original description (of Cypraea wilhelmina Kenyon, 1897) Kenyon, A.F. (1897). Descriptions of two new species of Cypraea from Western Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 22: 145., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3345371
page(s): 145 [details]

original description (of Cypraea poraria var. vibex Kenyon, 1902) Kenyon, A.[F.]. (1902). Some undescribed varieties of Cypraea. Journal of Conchology. 10(6): 183-184., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31650003
page(s): 184 [details]

original description (of Cypraea (Luponia) poraria var. insignis Dautzenberg, 1903) Dautzenberg, P. (1903). Révision des Cypraeidae de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie. 50: 291-384 ["1902"; 16 January 1903]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16319123
page(s): 368, pl. 7 figs 11-12 [details]

basis of record Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 644 pp.
page(s): 246, pl. 25 [details]