Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Blasicrura teres (Gmelin, 1791), Cribraria teres (Gmelin, 1791), Cypraea faedata Sulliotti, 1911, Cypraea subfasciata Link, 1807, Cypraea tabescens Dillwyn, 1817, Cypraea tabescens var. alveolus Tapparone-Canefri, 1882, Cypraea tabescens var. elaoides Melvill, 1888, Cypraea teres Gmelin, 1791 (Horton et al., 2021)

Origin: Native

• Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
• Groves, L.T. (1992) California Cowries (Cypraeacea): past and present, with notes on recent tropical eastern Pacific species. The Festivus 24(9): 101-107.
• 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.
• Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.