Cypraeerato is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Eratoidae.[1]
| Cypraeerato | |
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| 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] | |
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Proterato (Cypraeerato) Schilder, 1933 (original rank) | |
Nomenclature
editUnder 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
editSpecies 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
edit- 1 2 3 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. (1971). "Fossil and Recent Cypraeaceae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of New Zealand with Descriptions of New Species". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 8: 103–129. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906165. Wikidata Q58676890.
- 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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