Lyncina
| Lyncina | |
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| Five views of a shell of Lyncina carneola | |
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| A lateral view of a shell of Lyncina aurantium, anterior end towards the left | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Lyncina Troschel, 1861 |
| Type species | |
| Cypraea lynx Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Lyncina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
Distribution map of the genus Lyncina
Species
Species within the genus Lyncina include:[1]
- Lyncina aliceae Lum, 2013
- Lyncina aurantium (Gmelin, 1791)[2]
- Lyncina broderipii Gray in Sowerby, 1832
- Lyncina camelopardalis (Perry, 1811)[3]
- Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758) [4]
- Lyncina joycae (Clover, 1970)
- Lyncina kuroharai (Kuroda & Habe, 1961)[5]
- Lyncina leucodon (Broderip, 1832)[6]
- Lyncina leviathan Schilder & Schilder, 1937
- Lyncina lynx (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lyncina nivosa (Broderip, 1827)
- Lyncina porteri (Cate, 1966)
- Lyncina schilderorum Iredale, 1939
- Lyncina sulcidentata Gray, 1824
- Lyncina ventriculus (Lamarck, 1810)
- Lyncina vitellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Lyncina argus (Linnaeus, 1758):[7] synonym of Arestorides argus (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
- 1 2 3 Lyncina Troschel, 1861. WoRMS (2010). Lyncina Troschel, 1861. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204305 on 11 October 2010.
- ↑ Lyncina aurantium (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ↑ Lyncina camelopardalis (Perry, 1811). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ↑ Lyncina carniola . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ↑ Lyncina kuroharai (Kuroda & Habe, 1961). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ↑ Lyncina leucodon (Broderip, 1832). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ↑ Lyncina argus (L. 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
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