Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Cypraea albella Lamarck, 1822, Cypraea bandata Perry, 1811 unaccepted, Cypraea caputanguis Philippi, 1849 unaccepted, Cypraea caputcolubri Kenyon, 1898 unaccepted, Cypraea caputserpentis Linnaeus, 1758 unaccepted, Cypraea caputserpentis var. candidata Sulliotti, 1924, Cypraea caputserpentis var. caputcolubri Kenyon, 1898, Cypraea dorsoalbida Williams, 1914, Cypraea reticulum Gmelin, 1791, Erosaria (Ravitrona) caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758), Erosaria (Ravitrona) caputserpentis mikado F. A. Schilder & M. Schilder, 1938, Erosaria caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758), Erosaria caputserpentis kenyonae Schilder & Schilder, 1938, Erosaria caputserpentis var. albosignata Coen, 1949, Monetaria candidata Sulliotti, 1924, Monetaria caputserpentis f. monetserpentis Lorenz, Chiapponi & Mont, 2012, Monetaria caputserpentis var. aruni Lorenz, 2017, Monetaria caputserpentis var. meae Lorenz, 2017, Monetaria caputserpentis var. nivalis Lorenz & Vulliet, 2015, Ravitrona caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758), Ravitrona caputserpentis mikado (F. A. Schilder & M. Schilder, 1938), Ravitrona caputserpentis reticulum (Gmelin, 1791) (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

• Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
• 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.
• Kay, E.A. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos. Determinants of insular marine Faunas. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 235-252.