Monetaria
| Monetaria | |
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| The underside of a live Monetaria moneta with the mantle partially retracted | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Subfamily: | Erosariinae |
| Genus: |
Monetaria Troschel, 1863 |
| Type species | |
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Cypraea moneta Linnaeus, 1758 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Ravitrona Iredale, 1930 |
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Ravitrona Iredale, 1930
Monetaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
The generic placement is based on the molecular work of Meyer (2003). Some authors have previously placed species in the genus Erosaria (e.g. caputserpentis, by Lorenz and Hubert, 2000)
Species within the genus Monetaria include:
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