Naria (gastropod)

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

Naria
Five views of a shell of Naria erosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Naria Gray, 1837
Type species
Naria irrorata (Gray, 1828)
Synonyms
Albacypraea Steadman & Cotton, 1946 Aricia (Erosaria) Troschel, 1863 Brugnonia Jeffreys, 1883 Cupinota Iredale, 1939 Cypraea (Erosaria) Troschel, 1863 Cypraea (Naria) Gray, 1837 Cypraea (Ocellaria) Weinkauff, 1881 (invalid: junior homonym of Ocellaria Ramond, 1801 [Porifera]) Erosaria Troschel, 1863 Erosaria (Erosaria) Troschel, 1863 Erosaria (Ocellaria) Weinkauff, 1881 Paulonaria Iredale, 1930

Species

Species within the genus Naria include:

• Naria acicularis (Gmelin, 1791)
• † Naria agassizi (Ladd, 1934)
• Naria albuginosa (Gray, 1825)
• Naria beckii (Gaskoin, 1836)
• Naria bernardi (Richard, 1974)
• † Naria bezoyensis (Dolin & Lozouet, 2004)
• Naria boivinii (Kiener, 1843)
• Naria cernica (G.B. Sowerby II, 1870)
• Naria citrina (Gray, 1825)
• Naria eburnea Barnes, 1924
• Naria englerti (Summers & Burgess, 1965)
• Naria erosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
• † Naria everwijni (K. Martin, 1884)
• Naria franzhuberi Thach, 2020
• Naria gangranosa (Dillwyn, 1817)
• Naria helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Naria irrorata (Gray, 1828), the type species
• Naria labrolineata (Gaskoin, 1849)
• Naria lamarckii (Gray, 1825)
• Naria macandrewi (G.B. Sowerby II, 1870)
• Naria marginalis (Dillwyn, 1817)
• Naria miliaris (Gmelin, 1791)
• Naria nebrites (Melvill, 1888)
• Naria ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Naria ostergaardi (Dall, 1921)
• Naria poraria (Linnaeus, 1758)
• † Naria praehelvola Fehse & Vicián, 2021
• Naria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Naria thomasi (Crosse, 1865)
• Naria turdus (Lamarck, 1810)

References

• Broderip W.J. (1837). Cypraeidae, pp. 254–259, In: C. Knight (ed.), The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge. C. Knight, London. Vol. 8, 510 pp.
• Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 644 pp.

External links

• Iredale, T. (1930). Queensland molluscan notes, No. 2. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 10(1): 73-88, pl. 9
• Iredale, T. (1939). Australian Cowries: Part II. Australian Zoologist. 9(3): 297-323, 3 pl.
• Weinkauff, H.C. (1881). Catalog der Gattung Cypraea Linné. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 8: 133-157
• Jeffreys, J. G. (1883). Mediterranean Mollusca N. 3 and other Invertebrata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (5)11: 393-401, pl. 16
• Steadman, W. R. & Cotton, B. C. (1946). A key to the classification of the cowries (Cypraeidae). Records of the South Australian Museum. 8: 503-530
• Troschel, F. H. (1856-1893). Das Gebiss der Schnecken zur Begründung einer natürlichen Classification. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin.

Media related to Naria (gastropod) at Wikimedia Commons