Staphylaea staphylaea

Staphylaea staphylaea
Staphylaea staphylaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Staphylaea
Species:	S. staphylaea
Binomial name
Staphylaea staphylaea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1][2]
Cypraea staphylaea Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym) Cypraea atrata Gray, J.E., 1825 Cypraea deprava Dautzenberg, Ph., 1903 Pustularia depravata Dautzenberg, Ph., 1903 Cypraea albicilla Sulliotti, G.R., 1924 Cypraea expallescens Dautzenberg, Ph. & J.L. Bouge, 1933 Staphylaea fortis Coen, G.S., 1949 Staphylaea grisea Coen, G.S., 1949 Staphylaea lactea Coen, G.S., 1949 Staphylaea nitida Coen, G.S., 1949

Staphylaea staphylaea (common name : the stippled cowry) is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

There is one subspecies : Staphylaea staphylaea laevigata Dautz., 1932 ^[3]

Description

Distribution

Distribution map of Staphylaea staphylaea

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores , the East Coast of South Africa, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia, South Mozambique, Tanzania and in Polynesia and Australia.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Staphylaea staphylaea (Linnaeus). WoRMS (2009). Staphylaea staphylaea (Linnaeus). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216890 on 23 October 2010.
2. ^ Gastropods com : Staphylaea staphylaea staphylaea; accessed : 23 October 2010
3. ^ Gastropods.com : Staphylaea staphylaea laevigata , accessed : 23 October 2010

• 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.

External links

• * Felix Lorenz and Alex Hubert : A Guide to Worldwide Cowries, second revised edition, Conch Books, 2002, ISBN-10: 3925919252