Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Parent taxon: Cypraeidae according to L. T. Groves and R. L. Squires 2023
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Bouchet et al. 2017, Landau and Groves 2011 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Afrozoila, Akleistostoma, Archicypraeinae, Bernayinae, Bistolidinae, Cypraeinae, Cypraeorbis, Cypraeovulinae, Cyproglobininae, Erroneinae, Eucypraea, Fossacypraea, Gisortiinae, Luriinae, Mandolina, Megalocypraea, Nariinae, Nesiocypraea, Notadusta, Ovulum, Proadusta, Pseudadusta, Pseudocypraeinae, Pseudozonariinae, Pustulariinae, Pustulariopsis, Semicypraea, Siphocypraea, Umbilia, Zoila, Zonariinae
Subtaxa: Erosaria Erosariini Monetaria Naria Nucleolaria Propustularia Staphylaea Subepona
Type: Erosaria
Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), the Bahamas (1), Bermuda (1), Djibouti (7), Eritrea (3), Fiji (1), French Polynesia (1), India (1), Japan (5), Kenya (9), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (7), Mozambique (1), New Zealand (2), Papua New Guinea (2), Saudi Arabia (3), the Seychelles (7), Spain (1), Sudan (1), Tonga (3), Tuvalu (2), United States (21: Florida, Hawaii), Vanuatu (6), Yemen (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Guam (1), Malaysia (2)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (2), the Dominican Republic (5), Fiji (2), Indonesia (3), Japan (2), Northern Mariana Islands (1), the Philippines (1), Vanuatu (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (5)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (21), Fiji (3), Grenada (1), Hungary (2), Indonesia (7), Mexico (1), South Africa (1), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of France (4), Pakistan (2)
• Eocene of France (2), Italy (1), United States (7: California, Washington)
• Paleocene of Mexico (1), United States (2: California)
Total: 172 collections including 264 occurrences