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Cypraea annulus Linnaeus, 1758

Gold Ring Cowry


Lauren Hughes (2011)

 

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Bibliographies

Beechey D. 2010. The Seashells of New South Wales Des Beechey 2010 Des Beechey, Senior Fellow, Australian Museum. Based on the collections of the Australian Museum and of the author. Release 15.

Bryceson I. 1981. A review of some problems of tropical marine conservation with particular reference to the Tanzanian Coast. Biological Conservation 20: 163 71.

Burgess CM. 1970. The Living Cowries. A.S. Barnes, New York.

Foin TC .1976. Plate tectonics and the biogeography of Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Journal of Biogeography, 3: 19 - 34.

Hung T-C, Meng P-J, Han B-C, Chuang A, Huang C-C. 2001. Trace metals in different species of mollusca, water and sediment from Taiwan Coastal Area. Chemosphere 44: 833-841.

Irie T. 2006. Geographical variation of shell morphology in Cypraea annulus (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies 72: 31 - 38.

Irie T, Iwasa Y. 2003. Optimal growth model of the latitudinal cline of shell morphology in cowries (genus Cypraea). Evolutionary Ecology Research 5: 1133-1149.

Katoh M. 1989. The life history of the golden ring cowry Cypraea annulus (Mollusca: gastropoda) on Okinawa Island, Japan. Marine Biology 101: 227 - 234.

Lorenz F. 2000. Contribution to the knowledge on the ring cowry Erosaria annulus (Linnaeus 1758) and related species. (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur Cismar 14: 1– 95.

Meyer CP. 2003. Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics. Biological Journal of Linnean Society 79: 401-459.

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