Subspecies Melicerona listeri listeri (Gray, 1824)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cypraea listeri Gray, J.E. 1824. Monograph on the family Cypraeidae, a family of testaceous Mollusca. Zoological Journal of London 1: 367-391 [384].
• Cypraea ursellus Kiener, L.C. 1843. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Ballière 130pp., 47 pls. [99-100, no. 88, pl. 33, figs 4-4a].
• Palmadusta (Melicerona) felina pauciguttata Schilder, F.A. & Schilder, M. 1939. Prodrome of a monograph on living Cypraeidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 23: 119-231 [161].

 

Generic Combinations

• Melicerona listeri listeri (Gray, 1824). —
  Meyer, C. 2005. Melicerona listeri listeri Gray, 1824. Cowrie Genetic database Project. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/listeri.htm

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Central Indian Ocean east to SE Asia and NW Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

To 25 metres.

 

General References

Burgess, C.M. 1985. Cowries of the World. Cape Town : Seacomber Publications 289 pp. [244] (synonyms of Cypraea felina)

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 [61]

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [132]

Meyer, C. 2005. Melicerona listeri listeri Gray, 1824. Cowrie Genetic database Project. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/listeri.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)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CYPRAEOIDEA	16-May-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		18-Apr-2012	MOVED
01-Jun-2021		05-Mar-2012	MOVED
		23-Nov-2011	MODIFIED