Monetaria caputserpentis

Monetaria caputserpentis
A live individual of Monetaria caputserpentis, anterior end towards the right
A shell of Monetaria caputserpentis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Monetaria
Species:	M. caputserpentis
Binomial name
Monetaria caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Cypraea mauritiana Linnaeus, 1758 Cypraea reticulum Gmelin, 1791 Cypraea bandata Perry, 1811 Cypraea albella Lamarck, 1822 Cypraea caputanguis Philippi, 1849 Cypraea caputanguis var. sophia Brazier, 1897 Cypraea caputserpentis Linnaeus, 1758 Cypraea caputserpentis var. caputcolubri Kenyon, 1898 Cypraea caputserpentis var. candidata Sullioti, 1924 Cypraea caputserpentis var. argentata Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933 Erosaria caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758) Erosaria (Ravitrona) caputserpentis kenyonae Schilder & Schilder, 1938 Erosaria (Ravitrona) caputserpentis mikado Schilder & Schilder, 1938 Erosaria (Ravitrona) caputserpentis var. albosignata Coen, 1949

Monetaria caputserpentis, common name the serpent's-head cowry or snakehead cowry, is a species of cowry, a sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]