Cypraeovula capensis

Cypraeovula capensis, common name the Cape cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[2]

Cypraeovula capensis
Shell of Cypraeovula capensis archilyra (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Cypraeovula
Species:	C. capensis
Binomial name
Cypraeovula capensis (Gray, 1828)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Cypraea (Cypraeovula) capensis Gray, 1828 Cypraea capensis (Gray, 1828) (basionym) Cypraea capensis f. elizabethensis Rous, 1905 Cypraea capensis var. albolineata W. H. Turton, 1932 (junior synonym)

Subspecies

The following subspecies are accepted :[2]

• Cypraeovula capensis archilyra Van Heesvelde & Deprez, 2006
• Cypraeovula capensis capensis (Gray, 1828)
• Cypraeovula capensis cineracea Aiken, 2016
• Cypraeovula capensis gonubiensis Massier, 1993[3]
• Cypraeovula capensis gorda Van Heesvelde & Deprez, 2006[4]
• Cypraeovula capensis profundorum Seccombe, 2003[5]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the East Coast of South Africa.

References

1. Gray, John Edward (1828). "Additions and corrections to a monograph on Cypraea, a genus of testaceous Mollusca". Zoological Journal. 4 (13): 66–88.
2. Cypraeovula capensis . WoRMS (2009). Cypraeovula capensis. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225225 on 11 October 2010 .
3. Massier, W. (1993). "Description of a new subspecies of Cypraeovula capensis (Gray, 1828)(Gastropoda: Cypraeidae)". Schriften zur Malakozoologie. 6: 21–26, fig. 1, pl. 5.
4. Van Heesvelde, J.; Deprez, J. (2006). "The deepwater subspecies of Cypraeovula capensisGray, 1828 (Gastropoda: Cypraeideae)". Club Conchylia Informationen. 37 ((3-4)): 22–28.
5. Seccombe, A. (2003). "A new subspecies of Cypraeovula capensis occurring off the coast of the Eastern Cape, South Africa". Pallidula. 33 (2): 9–12.

• Turton W.H. (1932). Marine Shells of Port Alfred, S. Africa. Humphrey Milford, London, xvi + 331 pp., 70 pls.
• Steyn, D.G & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. Pp. i–vi, 1–289.