Genus Lyncina Troschel, 1863

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lyncina Troschel, 1863 [Das Gebiss der Schnecken, 1(5): 205, 208].

  Type species:

   Cypraea lynx Linné by subsequent designation (Tryon, 1883).
• Ponda Jousseaume, F.P. 1884. Division des Cypraeidae. Le Naturaliste 6(52): 414-415 [Date published 15 February 1884] [414] [fully described in Jousseaume, 1884, Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, 9: 95].

  Type species:

   Cypraea achatina Solander by subsequent designation (Jousseaume, 1884, Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, 9: 95).
• Callistocypraea Schilder, F.A. 1927. Revision der Cypraeacea (Moll. Gastr.). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 91A: 1-171 [104].

  Type species:

   Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791 by original designation.
• Mystaponda Iredale, T. 1930. Queensland Molluscan notes, No. 2. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10(1): 73–88 [83].

  Type species:

   Cypraea vitellus Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [66-67]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [182]

History of changes