Naria (gastropod)

Naria
Five views of a shell of Naria erosa
Scientific classification Edit this 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[1]
  • 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

Naria is a genus of sea snails, cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Erosariinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]

  1. ^ a b Naria Gray, 1837. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 January 2019.