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Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola

Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

Taxonomy
Cypraea helvola was named by Linnaeus (1758) [m. kosnik taxon no: 10475]. It is extant.

It was recombined as Erosaria (Ravitrona) helvola by Schilder (1937) and MacNeil (1960); it was recombined as Erosaria (Erosaria) helvola by Ladd and Hoffmeister (1945); it was recombined as Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola by Okutaini (2000); it was misspelled as Cypraea helveola by Barnard (1962) and Wilson (2002); it was recombined as Erosaria helvola by Taki (1951) and Meyer (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Cypraea helvola Linnaeus
1937Erosaria (Ravitrona) helvola Schilder p. 201
1945Erosaria (Erosaria) helvola Ladd and Hoffmeister
1951Erosaria helvola Taki figs. pl. 94, fig. 8
1960Erosaria (Ravitrona) helvola MacNeil p. 51 figs. Plate 17, figures 2, 6
1962Cypraea helveola Barnard
2000Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola Okutaini p. 239
2002Cypraea helvola Wilson p. 112
2004Erosaria helvola Meyer

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
superfamilyCypraeoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyCypraeidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyErosariinaeSchilder 1924
genusCypraeaTroschel 1863
subgenusErosaria
specieshelvola(Linnaeus 1758)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: omnivoref
Diet 2: grazerf
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 07:50:11
Modified: 2009-09-10 09:50:11
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Miocene to the top of the Holocene or 23.03000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (45 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Fiji (Vitu Levu) Cypraea helvola (179499)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Fiji Cypraea helvola (68295)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Indonesia Erosaria helvola (70120)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Fiji Cypraea helvola (78060)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Fiji Cypraea helvola (68180 68181)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Tuvalu Cypraea helvola (78036 78037)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Mozambique Cypraea helveola (122947)
Calabrian - Middle Pleistocene1.8 - 0.129Japan (Okinawa) Erosaria helvola (42305)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (Hawaii) Cypraea helvola (96682)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Vanuatu Cypraea helvola (78043)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117USA (Hawaii) Cypraea helvola (89294 89300 89301 89302 89303 89304 89305 89307)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Australia (Western Australia) Cypraea helvola (63356)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Tonga Cypraea helvola (78076 96472)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Japan Cypraea helvola (88886)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Djibouti Cypraea helvola (96787)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Hawaii) Cypraea helvola (89289 89290 89292 89400 89402 89403 89404)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Seychelles Cypraea helvola (80965 80966 81007 81008 81009 81011)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117Kenya Cypraea helvola (81036 81072 81077 81078 81079 81092)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Seychelles Cypraea helvola (96926)