Leporicypraea
| Leporicypraea | |
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| A live individual of Leporicypraea mappa with the mantle mostly retracted | |
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| Five views of a shell of Leporicypraea mappa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Subfamily: | Cypraeinae |
| Genus: | Leporicypraea Iredale, 1930 |
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Leporicypraea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1] Species within this genus are commonly found in the Indo-Pacific region.
Species
Species of Leporicypraea include:[2]
- Leporicypraea mappa (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Leporicypraea valentia (Perry, 1811)
References
- ↑ Soriano, J. L. (2006). "Consideraciones taxonómicas sobre la familia Cypraeidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda), con una nueva propuesta de clasificación supragenérica" (PDF). Spira (in Spanish) (Associación Catalana de Malacologia) 2 (1): 41–62.
- ↑ ONIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database. Accessed 26 September 2009
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