Species Cribrarula fallax (Smith, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cypraea fallax Smith, E.A. 1881. Descriptions of two new species of shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 8: 441–442 [441].
• Cypraea haddnightae Trenberth, W.P. 1973. A new subspecies of the species cibraria Linne, 1758. cribraria haddnightae, from South West Australia. Malacological Society of South Australia 17: 1-2, 2 pls.

 

Generic Combinations

• Cribrarula fallax (Smith, 1881).

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [178, pl. 35, figs 20 a-c] (as Cypraea fallax)

 

Common Name References

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [179] (Fallacious 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)
		23-Nov-2011	MODIFIED