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Cypraea spurca Linnaeus, 1758

738691  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738691)

 unaccepted > superseded combination
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  1. Subspecies Cypraea spurca globosa Settepassi, 1977 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (not available, published in a work which does not consistently use binominal nomenclature (ICZN art. 11.4))
  2. Variety Cypraea spurca var. albida Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
  3. Variety Cypraea spurca var. atlantica Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Naria spurca verdensium (Melvill, 1888) (synonym)
  4. Variety Cypraea spurca var. dilatata Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
  5. Variety Cypraea spurca var. elongata Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1906 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  6. Variety Cypraea spurca var. flavida Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
  7. Variety Cypraea spurca var. inaequipartita Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Naria spurca verdensium (Melvill, 1888) (synonym)
  8. Variety Cypraea spurca var. inversa Pallary, 1900 accepted as Naria spurca spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
  9. Variety Cypraea spurca var. limitaris Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Naria spurca spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
  10. Variety Cypraea spurca var. limpida Sulliotti, 1922 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, junior homonym and infrasubspecific name)
  11. Variety Cypraea spurca var. luridoidea Pallary, 1900 accepted as Naria spurca spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
  12. Variety Cypraea spurca var. major Pallary, 1900 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
  13. Variety Cypraea spurca var. minor Pallary, 1900 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
  14. Variety Cypraea spurca var. normalis Monterosato, 1897 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
  15. Variety Cypraea spurca var. peculiaris (Coen, 1949) accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
  16. Variety Cypraea spurca var. punctatissima Settepassi, 1977 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (not available, published in a work which does not consistently use binominal nomenclature (ICZN art. 11.4))
  17. Variety Cypraea spurca var. verdensium Melvill, 1888 accepted as Naria spurca verdensium (Melvill, 1888) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  18. Variety Cypraea spurca var. viridula Sulliotti, 1924 accepted as Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 724 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cypraea spurca Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=738691 on 2026-06-19
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Cypraea spurca Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=738691 on 2026-06-19
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2013-09-01 07:06:51Z
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Bouchet, Philippe
2020-06-04 05:54:54Z
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Köhler, Frank
2023-11-30 16:15:05Z
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Auffenberg, Kurt

original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 724 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details] 

additional source Gabb, W. M. (1873). On the topography and geology of Santo Domingo. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series.</em> 15(1): 49-259, 2 maps., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46059253
page(s): 235 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (83 publications) 
To NHMUK collection (Cypraea spurca Linnaeus, 1758; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3500775) 
To PESI 
To ITIS
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