Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pseudozonaria nigropunctata
Caurí de puntos negros, Black-spotted cowrie
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Cypraeoidea
Family
Cypraeidae
Genus
Pseudozonaria
Species
nigropunctata
Taxon category: Accepted
Cypraea irina Kiener, 1845, Cypraea nigropunctata Gray, 1828 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (C. nigropunctata) Ecuador (Galapagos Islands) and north of Peru.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pseudozonaria nigropunctata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19762. Accessed 1 November 2026.