Subspecies Mauritia scurra scurra (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cypraea scurra 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] [3409].
• Cypraea indica 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 argiolus 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 retifera Menke, K.T. 1829. Verzeichniss der ansehnlischen Conchylien-Sammlung der Freiherrn von der Malsburg. Pyrmonti : Publisher not known pp. i–vi, 1–123. [80-83].
• Cypraea amarata Mörch, O.A.L. 1852. Catalogus Conchyliorum quae reliquit d. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, regis daniae cubiculariorum princeps, ordinis dannebrogici in prima classe & ordinis caroli Tertii eques. Part 1. Cephalophora. Copenhagen : Hafinae Vol. 1 170 pp. [114].
• Arabica scurra antelia Iredale, T. 1939. Australian Cowries. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 9: 297-323 pls, 27-29 [302, pl. 28, figs 5-6].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60594 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Bunker Group, Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, Australia [24°7'1.2"S,152°41'60"E].
  Status unknown, Lady Elliot Island, Qld.
• Arabica scurra vono Steadman, W.R. & Cotton, B.C. 1943. The Cowries (Cypraeidae) of Fiji. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 7(4): 309-336 [328].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.14163, Suva, Fiji.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lorenz, F. 2017. Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Harxheim : ConchBooks Vol. 1, Biology and systematics. pp. 644.

 

Generic Combinations

• Mauritia scurra indica (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Lorenz, F. 2002. New Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-292. [21-23]
• Mauritia scurra (Gmelin, 1791).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Indian Ocean and western and central Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral reef, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

 

General References

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [59]

Lorenz, F. 2002. New Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-292. [21-23]

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [56]

Meyer, C. 2005. Mauritia scurra indica Gmelin, 1791. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/indica.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)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	24-Jul-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021	CYPRAEOIDEA	05-Mar-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		22-Nov-2011	MODIFIED