Sphaerocypraea is a small family of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Eocypraeidae, belonging to the cowries and cowry allies.[1]
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| Shell of Sphaerocypraea incomparabilis (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Eocypraeidae |
| Genus: | Sphaerocypraea F. A. Schilder, 1924 |
| Type species | |
| † Cypraea bowerbankii Sowerby in Dixon, 1850 | |
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Species
edit- † Sphaerocypraea bowerbankii (Sowerby in Dixon, 1850) †
- Sphaerocypraea incomparabilis (Briano, 1993)
- † Sphaerocypraea levesquei (Deshayes, 1835)
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Sphaerocypraea F. A. Schilder, 1927. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575779 on 2022-06-19
- Briano, B. (1993). Descrizione di un nuovo Genere e una nuova specie di Cypraeidae dalla Somalia. World Shells. 5: 14-17. Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae|publisher = ConchBooks|location= Hackenheim|year = 2009|pages = 650 pp}}
- Fehse, D (2009). "Seven contributions to the knowledge of fossil and recent Cypraeidae, Eocypraeidae & Pediculariidae". Acta Conchyliorum. 10: 101 pp.
- Fehse, D. (2004). "A new fossil species in the gastropod family Eocypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cypraeoidea) from the Mediterranean Pliocene". La Conchiglia. 36 (311): 37–40.
External links
edit- Schilder, F. A. (1927). Revision der Cypraeacea (Moll. Gastr.). Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 91A(10): 1-171
- Fehse, D. (2021). The systematic position of the Eocypraeidae F.A. Schilder 1924 Part 2 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cypraeoidea). Privately published, Dirk Fehse, Berlin. 1-46