Sphaerocypraea

Sphaerocypraea is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Eocypraeidae, belonging to the cowries and cowry allies.^[1]

Sphaerocypraea
Shell of Sphaerocypraea incomparabilis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Eocypraeidae
Genus:	Sphaerocypraea F. A. Schilder, 1924
Type species
† Cypraea bowerbankii Sowerby in Dixon, 1850
Synonyms[1]
Chimaeria Briano, 1993 Eocypraea (Sphaerocypraea) F. A. Schilder, 1927 (original combination) † Marginocypraea Ingram, 1947

Species

• † Sphaerocypraea bowerbankii (Sowerby in Dixon, 1850)
• † Sphaerocypraea bullaeformis (Tate, 1898)
• † Sphaerocypraea camboritus Pacaud, 2018
• † Sphaerocypraea gallica Pacaud, 2018
• Sphaerocypraea incomparabilis (Briano, 1993)
• † Sphaerocypraea jacksonensis (C. W. Johnson, 1899)
• † † Sphaerocypraea levesquei (Deshayes, 1835)
• Sphaerocypraea paraguana (Ingram, 1947)
• † Sphaerocypraea tessieri (Amard, Collignon & Roman, 1983)