Cribrarula

Cribrarula
Dorsal view of a shell of Cribrarula cribaria
Five views of a shell of Cribrarula cribaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Cribrarula Strand, 1929
Type species
Cypraea cribraria Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
Adusta (Cribraria) Jousseaume, 1884 Cribraria Jousseaume, 1884 (non Persoon, 1794) Nivigena Iredale, 1930

Cribrarula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Species

Species within the genus Cribrarula include:

• Cribrarula abaliena Lorenz, 1989
• Cribrarula abrolhensis Lorenz, 2002
• Cribrarula astaryi Schilder, 1971
• Cribrarula boninensis Simone & Takashigue, 2016
• Cribrarula catholicorum Schilder & Schilder, 1938
• †Cribrarula cincta (K. Martin, 1899)
• Cribrarula comma (Perry, 1811)
• Cribrarula compta (Pease, 1860)
• Cribrarula cribellum (Gaskoin, 1849)
• Cribrarula cribraria Linnaeus, 1758
• Cribrarula cumingii (Sowerby I, 1832)
• Cribrarula esontropia (Duclos, 1833)
• Cribrarula exmouthensis (Melvill, 1888)
• Cribrarula fallax (E.A. Smith, 1881)
• Cribrarula francescoi Lorenz, 2002
• Cribrarula garciai Lorenz & Raines, 2001
• Cribrarula gaskoini (Reeve, 1846)
• Cribrarula gaspardi Biraghi & Nicolay, 1993
• Cribrarula gravida Moretzsohn, 2002
• Cribrarula melwardi (Iredale, 1930)
• Cribrarula pellisserpentis Lorenz, 1999
• Cribrarula rottnestensis Lorenz, 2002
• Cribrarula taitae (Burgess, 1993)

Species brought into synonymy

• Cribrarula angelae Moretzsohn & Beals, 2009: accepted as Cribrarula rottnestensis angelae Moretzsohn & Beals, 2009
• Cribrarula fischeri (Vayssière, 1911): accepted as Cribrarula esontropia (Duclos, 1833)
• Cribrarula lefaiti P. Martin & Poppe, 1989: accepted as Cribrarula astaryi F. A. Schilder, 1971
• Cribrarula toliaraensis Bozzetti, 2007: accepted as Cribrarula comma toliaraensis Bozzetti, 2007

External links

• Jousseaume, F. (1884). Division des Cypraeidae. Le Naturaliste. 6(52): 414-415
• Iredale, T. (1930). Queensland molluscan notes, No. 2. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 10(1): 73-88, pl. 9
• Heiman E.L. 2010. The genus Cribrarula in the Indo-Pacific. Triton, 21, suppl. 2: 1-12