Species Mauritia histrio (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cypraea histrio 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] [3403].
• Cypraea reticulata 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 amethystea 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, 824 pp. [720].
• Cypraea oculata 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] [23] [junior homonym of Cypraea oculata Gmelin, 1791].
• Cypraea undosa 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] [26].
• Cypraea arlequina Mörch, 1852.
• Arabica westralis Iredale, T. 1935. Australian cowries. The Australian Zoologist 8(2): 96-135, pl. 8-9 [108].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60596 dry, Broome, Western Australia, Australia [17°58'1.2"S,122°13'58.8"E].
• Mauritia (Arabica) histrio duploreticulata Coen, G. 1949. Nota su alcune forme nuove di "Cypraecea". Historia Naturalis, Roma 3(1): 13-18 [14] [as Mauritia (Arabica) histrio var. duploreticulata Coen, 1949].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [60]

 

Generic Combinations

• Mauritia histrio (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [60]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indian Ocean

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

under large blocks of coral

 

General References

Burgess, C.M. 1985. Cowries of the World. Cape Town : Seacomber Publications 289 pp. [71] (as Cypraea histrio)

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [60]

Meyer, C. 2005. Mauritia histrio Gmelin, 1791. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/histrio.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. [185, pl. 31, figs 5 a-c]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [58, pl. 151] (The Stage 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)
		22-Nov-2011	MODIFIED