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Definition of Cypraeidae
1. Noun. Family of marine gastropods comprising the cowries.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Order Pectinibranchia, Pectinibranchia
Member holonyms: Cypraea, Genus Cypraea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cypraeidae
Literary usage of Cypraeidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"Check Hst of the Cypraeidae occurring in the Western Hemisphere. ... Additions to
the knowledge of the Cypraeidae based on the collections of the American ..."
2. American Journal of Conchology by George Washington Tryon, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Conchological Section (1871)
"And certainly there is considerable similarity in the general contour of that
species to that of the Cypraeidae, and even in color there is a likeness to ..."
3. A Monograph of the Molluscan Fauna of the Orthaulax Pugnax Zone of the by William Healey Dall (1915)
"Family Cypraeidae. Genus CYPRAEA Linnaeus. CYPRAEA CAPENSIS Lamarck. Cat. No.
18174, USNM, one from Natal. Cat. No. 7i USNM, three from Cape of Good Hope. ..."
4. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"... in many Cypraeidae (Fig. 70) and Marginellidae, in Pyrula (Fig. 71), Aplysia (Fig.
154), many Bullidae, and various Pulmonates, such as Vitrina, ..."
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