Genus Monetaria Troschel, 1863

Museums

Regional Maps

• Monetaria Troschel, 1863 [Neave, 1940 [Nomenclator Zoologicus, 3: 105] has an entry for "Mercatoria Melvill, 1888, "err. pro Monetaria Troschel, 1861". In that work, Melvill, 1888 [Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, ser. 4, 1: 207] only referred to "C. [Cypraea] Mercatorum (Rochbr.)", i.e. Monetaria mercatorium Rochebrune, 1884].

  Type species:

   Cypraea moneta Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation (tautonomy).
• Cypraea (Aricia) Gray, J.E. 1837. In: Broderip W.J. (1837). Cypraeidae. pp. 254–259 in Knight, C. (ed.). The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge. London : C. Knight Vol. 8 510 pp. [256] [junior homonym; junior homonym of Aricia Savigny, 1822 [Polychaeta]].

  Type species:

   Cypraea moneta Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Aria Deshayes, 1865.

  Type species:

   Cypraea arabica Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Mercatoria Melvill, 1888.

  Type species:

   Cypraea moneta Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Erosaria (Ravitrona) Iredale, T. 1930. Queensland Molluscan notes, No. 2. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10(1): 73–88 [82].

  Type species:

   Cypraea caputserpentis Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Ornamentaria Schilder, M. & Schilder, F.A. 1937. Revision of the genus Monetaria (Cypraeidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1936: 1113-1135 [1115, 1133] [not available (no diagnosis) from Schilder, 1936, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 22(2): 83].

  Type species:

   Cypraea annulus 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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 [60]

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