Zonaria petitiana

Zonaria petitiana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Zonaria
Species:	Z. petitiana
Binomial name
Zonaria petitiana (Crosse, 1872)
Synonyms
Cypraea petitiana Crosse, 1872 superseded combination Zonaria angelicae var. petiformis Lorenz & F. Huber, 1993 Zonaria pyrum petitiana (Crosse, 1872)

Zonaria petitiana is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

Synonyms

• Zonaria petitiana senegalensis F. A. Schilder, 1928: synonym of Zonaria pyrum insularum F. A. Schilder, 1928

Taxonomy

Some authors consider Z. petitiana a subspecies of Zonaria pyrum, e.g. Lorenz and Hubert, 2000, although Lorenz 2002 considers it a valid species.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 17 mm and 398mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Senegal and Gabon

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zonaria petitiana (Crosse, 1872). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=595690 on 2023-11-26

• Lorenz F. (2002) New worldwide cowries. Descriptions of new taxa and revisions of selected groups of living Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur-Cismar 20: 1–292, pls 1-40.
• Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 644 pp.

External links

• Crosse H. (1872). Diagnoses molluscorum novorum. Journal de Conchyliologie. 20: 211-214.,
• Conchology.be: image