Subspecies Erronea ovum ovum (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cypraea ovum Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3412].
• Cypraea cruenta Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3420].
• Cypraea olivacea Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1810. Sur la determination des espèces parmi les animaux sans vertebres, et particulierement parmi les mollusques testaces. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 16(47): 89-108 [95, no. 37].
• Cypraea errones ovata Gray, J.E. 1824. Monograph on the family Cypraeidae, a family of testaceous Mollusca. Zoological Journal of London 1: 367-391 [385] [as Cypraea errones var. ovata Gray, 1824; junior homonym of Cypraea ovata Gmelin, 1791 and Cypraea ovata Perry, 1811].

 

Generic Combinations

• Erronea ovum ovum (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Meyer, C. 2005. Erronea ovum ovum Gmelin, 1791. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/ovum.htm

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

SE Asia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, rocks.

 

General References

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [122]

Meyer, C. 2005. Erronea ovum ovum Gmelin, 1791. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/ovum.htm

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

 

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