Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Cypraea ziczac 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 Edn., 824 pp. [722].
• Cypraea undata Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1810. Sur la determination des espèces parmi les animaux sans vertebres, et particulierement parmi les mollusques testaces. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 16(47): 89-108 [96].
• Cypraea vittata Deshayes, G.P. 1832. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 3 pp. 595-1152. [Date published 29 September 1832] [829].
• Palmadusta ziczac signata Iredale, T. 1939. Australian Cowries. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 9: 297-323 pls, 27-29 [317].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60551 dry, Sandon River, south of Yamba, New South Wales, Australia [29°40'30'S,153°19'51.6'E].
  Status unknown, NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Cypraea (Palmadusta) ziczac Linnaeus, 1758. —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [189]
• Palmadusta ziczac ziczac (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  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 [456]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Central Indiand Ocean east to central Pacific

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

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

General References

Burgess, C.M. 1985. Cowries of the World. Cape Town : Seacomber Publications 289 pp. [142] (as Cypraea ziczac)

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. [152]

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. [189, pl. 33, figs 18 a-c]

Common Name References

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [153] (Zigzag Cowry)

History of changes