Cypraea
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Cypraea Temporal range: Miocene–Recent |
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| Five views of a shell of Cypraea tigris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: |
Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, 1758 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Pantherinaria Sacco, 1894 |
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Pantherinaria Sacco, 1894
Cypraea is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails or cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Species within the genus Cypraea include:
Almost all species previously belonging to Cypraea have been reassigned to other genera within the family Cypraeidae.
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