Species Calpurnus verrucosus (Linnaeus, 1758)

• 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 Edn., 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

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