Species Nucleolaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cypraea nucleus 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. [724].
• Cypraea lima 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] [24].
• Cypraea variolosa 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] [24] [junior homonym to Gmelin 1791].
• Cypraea gemmosa Perry, G. 1811. Conchology, or the natural history of shells containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings, executed from the natural specimens and including the latest discoveries. London : W. Miller 4 pp., 62 pls. [pl. 5, fig. 6].
• Nuclearia nucleus granulosa Schilder, F.A. & Schilder, M. 1940. Die Verbreitung und Haufigkeit der rezenten Cypraeidae. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 72: 33-56 [42].
• Cypraea nucleus cerea Sullioti, G.R. 1924. Note di patologia malacologica (Contribuzione allo studio delle Cypraeidae). Italy : Imperia, Tip. Nazionale 15 pp. [11] [as *V.? nucleus var. cerea Sullioti, 1924].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Meyer, C. 2005. Nucleolaria nucleus Linnaeus, 1758. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/nucleus.htm (see website for additional synonyms)

 

Generic Combinations

• Cypraea (Nucleolaria) nucleus Linnaeus, 1758. —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [185]
• Nucleolaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758) [changed combiantion]. —
  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 [453]

 

Distribution

States

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, coral reef, intertidal, marine, subtidal.

 

General References

Burgess, C.M. 1985. Cowries of the World. Cape Town : Seacomber Publications 289 pp. [235]

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [214]

Meyer, C. 2005. Nucleolaria nucleus Linnaeus, 1758. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/nucleus.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)

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [131, fig. 1b] (Hard-rusted Cowry)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [126, pl. 382] (Nut Cowry)

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [214] (Kernel Cowry)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CYPRAEOIDEA	27-Jun-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		05-Mar-2012	MOVED
		18-Jan-2012	MODIFIED