Subspecies Erronea caurica caurica (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Erronea caurica caurica Linnaeus, C. 1758. Classis III. Amphibia. pp. 194-238 in Linnaeus, C. 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. [723].

  Secondary source:

   Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [136] (see reference for synonymy).
• Erronea caurica blaesa Iredale, T. 1939. Australian Cowries. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 9: 297-323 pls, 27-29 [322, pl. 29, fig. 3-4].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60580 dry, Broome, Western Australia, Australia [17°58'1.2"S,122°13'58.8"E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Meyer, C. 2005. Erronea caurica caurica Linneaus, 1758. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/caurica.htm (see site for additional synonyms)

 

Generic Combinations

• Erronea caurica caurica (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [136]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

SE Asia and western Pacific

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks in turbid water

 

General References

Lorenz, F. 2002. New Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-292. [80, 81, map 23]

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [136, pls 51, 54, 106, 109]

Meyer, C. 2005. Erronea caurica caurica Linneaus, 1758. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/caurica.htm

Meyer, C.P. 2003. Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 79: 401-459 (included in analysis)

Meyer, C.P. 2004. Toward comprehensiveness: increased molecular sampling within Cypraeidae and its phylogenetic implications. Malacologia 46(1): 127-156 (included in analysis)

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [180-181, pl. 34, figs 1a-c]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CYPRAEOIDEA	26-Mar-2012	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)