Species Naria cernica (Sowerby, 1870)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cypraea cernica Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1870. Monograph of the genus Cypraea. 1-58, pls 292-328 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 4. [38, pl. 26, figs 238-240].
• Erosaria cernica tomlini Schilder, F.A. 1930. Remarks on type specimens of some recent Cypraeidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 19: 49-58 [49].
• Erosaria percomis Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [219].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sydney Harbour, NSW.
• Erosaria tomlini prodiga Iredale, T. 1939. Australian Cowries. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 9: 297-323 pls, 27-29 [307].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, Newcastle, NSW; Newcastle, N.S.W., Australia.
• Erosaria (Ravitrona) cernica ogasawarensis Schilder, F.A. & Schilder, M 1944. Westpazifische Cypraeacea von den Forschngreisen des Professor Dr. Sixten Bock. Arkiv för Zoologi 36A(2): 1-32 [11].
• Ravitrona tomlini kermadecensis Powell, A.W.B. 1958. Mollusca of the Kermadec Islands. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 5(1 & 2): 65-85 [79, t. 10:5].
• Erosaria tomlini maturata Kira, T. 1959. Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan. Osaka : Hoikusha Publishing Co. Ltd (revised edn) Vol. 7 240 pp. 72 pls. [47, t. 19:11].
• Cypraea cernica marielae Cate, C.N. 1960. A new Hawaiian subspecies of Cypraea cernica Sowerby. Veliger 3(1): 3-6 [3, pl. 1, figs 1, 1a, 2, 2a].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM 212711, off Maui, Hawaii.
• Cypraea cernica viridicolor Cate, C.N. 1962. A new Dampierian Cypraea. Veliger 4(4): 175-177 [175].

  Type data:

   Holotype CAS(SU) 9506, Vlaming Head, Northwest Cape, Western Australia [21°50'S, 114°10'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Erosaria cernica (Sowerby, 1870). —
  Meyer, C. 2005. Erosaria cernica Sowerby III, 1870. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/cernica.htm
• Cypraea (Erosaria) cernica Sowerby, 1870. —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [179]
• Naria cernica (Sowerby, 1870).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west and central Pacific

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 Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, subtidal.

 

General References

Burgess, C.M. 1985. Cowries of the World. Cape Town : Seacomber Publications 289 pp. [209]

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]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [191, figs 67G-H]

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [195]

Meyer, C. 2005. Erosaria cernica Sowerby III, 1870. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/cernica.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. [179, pl. 32, figs 12 a,b]

 

Common Name References

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [195] (Separated Cowry)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CYPRAEOIDEA	20-Jun-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		05-Mar-2012	MOVED
		23-Nov-2011	MODIFIED