Gastropoda - Cypraeoidea - Cypraeidae

Full reference: C. J. Maury. 1917. Santo Domingo type sections and fossils. Bulletins of American Paleontology 5(30):1-43

Belongs to Cypraea according to C. J. Maury 1917

Sister taxa: Cypraea (Bernayia), Cypraea (Bistolida) hirundo, Cypraea (Bistolida) kieneri, Cypraea (Blasicrura), Cypraea (Chelycypraea), Cypraea (Cribraria), Cypraea (Cribrarula), Cypraea (Cribrarula) cribraria, Cypraea (Cypraea), Cypraea (Cypraeotrivia), Cypraea (Lyncina), Cypraea (Mauritia), Cypraea (Monetaria), Cypraea (Notadusta), Cypraea (Notocypraea), Cypraea (Nucleolaria), Cypraea (Palmadusta), Cypraea (Purpuradusta), Cypraea (Staphylaea), Cypraea affinis, Cypraea angliae, Cypraea anguillana, Cypraea annulus, Cypraea avellana, Cypraea caurica, Cypraea eglantina, Cypraea elongata, Cypraea errones, Cypraea gracilis, Cypraea limacina, Cypraea miliaris, Cypraea murisimilis, Cypraea nasuta, Cypraea noueli, Cypraea nuciformis, Cypraea ovata, Cypraea parahybensis, Cypraea parisimina, Cypraea prunum, Cypraea retusa, Cypraea riachuelana, Cypraea rugosa, Cypraea semen, Cypraea staphylaea, Cypraea subtetragona, Cypraea subviridis, Cypraea zonata

Type specimen: Holotype (no number), a shell

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Average measurements (in mm): shell 28.0 x 14.0