Subspecies Ovatipsa chinensis chinensis (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cypraea chinensis 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].
• Erronea caurica cairnsiana Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1904. The Cypraeidae of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and North Arabian Sea, as exhibited in Mr. F.W. Townsend's Collections, 1893-1904. Journal of Conchology 11: 117-122 [118] [as Erronea caurica var. cairnsiana Melvill & Standen, 1904].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Karachi.
• Erronea variolaria amiges Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1915. Description of a new variety of Cypraea variolaria Lamk. Journal of Conchology 14: 323 [323] [as Erronea variolaria var. amiges Melvill & Standen, 1915].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Hawaiian Archipelago.
• Cribraria (Ovatipsa) chinensis sydneyensis Schilder, F.A. & Schilder, M. 1939. Prodrome of a monograph on living Cypraeidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 23: 119-231 [170] [literature name as cited in OBIS 2010].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sydney, NSW.
• Cribraria (Ovatipsa) chinensis whitworthi Cate, C.N. 1964. Western Australian Cowries. Veliger 7(1): 7-29 [20, pl. 5, figs 2a-2b].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 33-64, Vlaming Head, North West Cape, Western Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lorenz, F. 2017. Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Harxheim : ConchBooks Vol. 1, Biology and systematics. pp. 644. [487]

 

Generic Combinations

• Erronea chinensis amiges (Melvill & Standen, 1915). —
  Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [141]
• Ovatipsa chinensis sydneyensis (Melvill & Standen, 1915). —
  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]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western to central Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral, coral reef, intertidal, marine, rock reef, rocks, 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 [60]

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [141]

Meyer, C. 2005. Ovatipsa chinensis amiges Melvill & Standen, 1904. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/amiges.htm

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	09-Nov-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021	CYPRAEOIDEA	18-Apr-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		05-Mar-2012	MOVED
		19-Nov-2013	MODIFIED