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

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It is catalogued under the topic Cypraeidae.

Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. OrderLittorinimorpha
  5. FamilyCypraeidae
Habitatmarine

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Specimen records
68
Family
Cypraeidae
Collections
CAS, CM, UCMP, NMV, QM, AM
Recorded in
Marshall Islands, United States, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand

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

==Species== Species within the genus Staphylaea include: Staphylaea limacina (Lamarck, 1810) Staphylaea semiplota (Mighels, 1845) Staphylaea staphylaea (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms Staphylaea nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758) is a synonym of Nucleolaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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