Species Calpurnus verrucosus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bulla verrucosa Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [726].

  Type data:

   Holotype LS, "Habitata in India Oriental" designated as Tanga, Tanzania, East Africa [6°00'S, 34°30'E].
• Ovula perla Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [22].

 

Generic Combinations

• Ovula verrucosa (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Sowerby, J. de C. 1825. Unknown title. pts 84-86, 139-168, pls 486-503 in Sowerby, J. de C. (ed). Mineral Conchology. London : J. de C. Sowerby Vol. 5.
• Calpurnus (Ovula) verrucosa (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Horst, R. & Schepman, M.M. 1899. Catalogue systématique des mollusques (Gastropodes, prosobranches et Polyplacophores). Leiden : Mus d'Hist. Nat. des Pays Bas pp. 177-360. [190]
• Cyprella verrucosum (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Swainson, W. 1840. A treatise on malacology or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 419 pp. [May 1840] [325]
• Calpurnus verrucosus (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [199, pl. 24, figs 26a-b]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral, coral reef, intertidal, marine, subtidal.

 

General References

Cate, C.N. 1973. A systematic revision of the Recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger supplement 15: 1-116 [63]

Coleman, N. 2003. 2002 Sea shells catalogue of Indo-Pacific mollusca. Queensland, Australia : Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd pp.1-144. [86]

Lorenz, F. & Fehse, D. 2009. The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. ConchBooks pp. 1-651. [32, pls 1, 203, A1-A4]

Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [94]

Subba Rao, N.V. 2003. Indian Seashells (Part 1). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper (192): 1-416 [181]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [199, pl. 24, figs 26a-b]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [132, fig. 5b] (Little Egg Cowry)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [156, pl. 468] (Toe Nail Cowry)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [118, pl. 119] (Umbilical Egg Cowry)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CYPRAEOIDEA	05-Mar-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		24-Jan-2012	MODIFIED