Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Cypraea fusca Gray in G. B. Sowerby I, 1832, Niveria fusca (Gray in G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) (Horton et al., 2021). Note: 1832 [Cypraea fusca Gray, Descr. Cat. Shells] (in- valid: not published), 1832 Cypraea fusca Sowerby II, Conch. lUustr., Cypraeidae: 13 (120): fig. 37, 1971 Trivia (Pusula) fusca (Sowerby, 1832, ex Gray, MS). Keen, Sea Shells Trop. W America: 487; fig. 906 (syntype.) and Pusula (Pusula) fusca (Sowerby II, 1832) (Figs. 97, 97a: lectotype herein) (Cate, 1979); Trivia fusca (Sowerby, 1832, ex Gray, MS) (Kaiser, 1997); Pseudopusula fusca (Gray in G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) new combination reference Fehse D. & Grego J. (2020) in Horton et al., (2021).

Origin: Endemic

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: (C. fusca) Galapagos and Bay of Guayaquil (Sowerby, 1832)

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