Cribrarula

Cribrarula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]

Cribrarula
Dorsal view of a shell of Cribrarula cribaria
Five views of a shell of Cribrarula cribaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Cribrarula Strand, 1929
Type species
Cypraea cribraria Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
Adusta (Cribraria) Jousseaume, 1884 Cribraria Jousseaume, 1884 (non Persoon, 1794) Nivigena Iredale, 1930

Species

Species within the genus Cribrarula include:

• Cribrarula abaliena Lorenz, 1989
• Cribrarula angelae Moretzsohn & Beals, 2009[2]
• Cribrarula astaryi Schilder, 1971
• Cribrarula boninensis Simone & Takashigue, 2016
• Cribrarula catholicorum Schilder & Schilder, 1938
• Cribrarula compta (Pease, 1860)
• Cribrarula cribraria Linnaeus, 1758[3]
• Cribrarula cumingii (Sowerby I, 1832)
• Cribrarula esontropia (Duclos, 1833)[4]
• Cribrarula exmouthensis (Melvill, 1888)[5]
• Cribrarula fallax (E.A. Smith, 1881)
• Cribrarula garciai Lorenz & Raines, 2001[6]
• Cribrarula gaskoini (Reeve, 1846)
• Cribrarula gaspardi Biraghi & Nicolay, 1993
• Cribrarula gravida Moretzsohn, 2002[7]
• Cribrarula lefaiti Martin & Poppe, 1989
• Cribrarula melwardi (Iredale, 1930)
• Cribrarula pellisserpentis Lorenz, 1999[8]
• Cribrarula taitae (Burgess, 1993)

Species brought into synonymy

• Cribrarula cribellum (Gaskoin, 1849): synonym of Cribrarula esontropia cribellum (Gaskoin, 1849)
• Cribrarula gaskoinii (Reeve, 1846): synonym of Cribrarula gaskoini (Reeve, 1846)
• Cribrarula toliaraensis Bozzetti, 2007[9] (species inquirenda, Further research needed, including molecular data, to confirm it as a valid subspecies; it is likely a synonym of C. cribraria comma)

References

1. Cribrarula . WoRMS (2010). Cribrarula. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391592 on 11 October 2010 .
2. Cribrarula angelae Moretzsohn & Beals, 2009. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
3. Cribrarula cribraria . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
4. Cribrarula esontropia . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
5. Cribrarula exmouthensis . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
6. Cribrarula garciai Lorenz & Raines, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
7. Cribrarula gravida Moretzsohn, 2002. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
8. Cribrarula pellisserpentis Lorenz, 1999. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
9. Cribrarula toliaraensis Bozzetti, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.

External links

• Jousseaume, F. (1884). Division des Cypraeidae. Le Naturaliste. 6(52): 414-415
• Iredale, T. (1930). Queensland molluscan notes, No. 2. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 10(1): 73-88, pl. 9
• Heiman E.L. 2010. The genus Cribrarula in the Indo-Pacific. Triton, 21, suppl. 2: 1-12