MolluscaBase - Cypraea globulus Linnaeus, 1758

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Cypraea globulus Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID

216821 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216821)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (original combination)

Accepted name

Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Trivia (Epona) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

Parent

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Cypraea globulus Linnaeus, 1758

Direct children (2)

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Subspecies Cypraea globulus brevirostris (F. A. Schilder & M. Schilder, 1938) accepted as Pustularia globulus brevirostris F. A. Schilder & M. Schilder, 1938
Subspecies Cypraea globulus globulus Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Pustularia globulus globulus (Linnaeus, 1758) (original combination)

Environment

marine

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Cypraea globulus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216821 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

1997-12-27 13:13:25Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-10-02 15:31:39Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2011-11-10 00:14:28Z

changed

Moretzsohn, Fabio

Licensing

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original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Spelling C. globusus in Vine 1986 [details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications)
To Genbank
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection