Cypraea
Genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cypraea is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails or cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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Cypraea | |
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Five views of a shell of Cypraea tigris | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Cypraeidae |
Subfamily: | Cypraeinae |
Genus: | Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758 |
Type species | |
Cypraea tigris | |
Synonyms | |
Pantherinaria Sacco, 1894 |
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