Cypraeerato

Cypraeerato is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Eratoidae.[1]

Cypraeerato
Shell of Cypraeerato boucheti (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Eratoidae
Genus: Cypraeerato
Schilder, 1933
Type species
Erato bimaculata Tate, 1878
Synonyms[1]

Proterato (Cypraeerato) Schilder, 1933 (original rank)

Nomenclature

Under ICZN Art. 13.1, the name Cypraeerato is not available from Schilder (1932), who fixed a type species, but did not provide a description.

Species

Species within the genus Cypraeerato include :[1]

  • Cypraeerato bimaculata (Tate, 1878)
  • Cypraeerato boucheti (Drivas & Jay, 1986)
  • Cypraeerato geralia (C. N. Cate, 1977)
  • Cypraeerato margarita Fehse, 2018
  • Cypraeerato nitida Fehse, 2018
  • Cypraeerato rangiroa Fehse, 2012
  • Cypraeerato splendida Fehse, 2017
  • Cypraeerato stalagmia (C. N. Cate, 1975)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Cypraeerato gemma (Bavay, 1917): synonym of Eratoena gemma (Bavay, 1917)

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cypraeerato Schilder, 1933. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596847 on 2020-10-06
  • Cernohorsky, W. O. "Fossil and Recent Cypraeacea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of New Zealand with descriptions of new species." Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum (1971): 103-129.
  • Fehse, D. "Contributions to the knowledge of the Eratoidae. XIV. New Eratoids from Papua New Guinea including Kavieng, New Ireland." Neptunea 4 (2018).


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