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Cypraea caputserpentis

Serpent's Head Cowrie


             Shun Y. WONG (2014)

 

 

 

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Wikipedia: Cypraea caputserpentis

Arakawa, K. Y. 1965, Studies on the molluscan faeces (II),Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, vol 13, iss 1, pp 1-21. 

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Burgess, C. M. 1970, The Living Cowries, AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey
 

Burgess, C. 1986, Cowries of the world, CapeTown, Gordon Verhoef Seacomber Publications.

Cantera, J. R. 1991, ‘First record of the Indo-Pacificgastropod Cypraea caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758) at Isla Gorgona, Colombia’, Veliger, iss 34, pp 85-87.

Denny, M 1980, 'The role of gastropod pedal mucus inlocomotion', Nature, vol 285, no 5761, pp 160.

Linnaeus, C. 1758, ‘Systema Naturae per regna trianaturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis,synonymis, locis’, Editio decima,reformata, pp824.


Meyer, C. 2003, ‘Molecular systematics of cowries(Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics’, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society,vol 79, iss 401-459, pp 411. 

Murayama, S. 1968,Shell-Bearing Molluscs of the Uji Islets,Memoirs of Faculty of Fisher
ies Kagoshima University, iss 17, pp 86-93.


Ruppert, E. 2004, Invertebrate zoology: a functional evolutionary approach. Brooks/Cole, 7th Edition.


Schnoor, J. 2013, 'Ocean acidification', Environmental science & technology, vol 47, iss 21, pp 11919.