Staphylaea

Staphylaea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[2]

Staphylaea
Staphylaea staphylaea shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Staphylaea Jousseaume, 1884[1]

Species

Species within the genus Staphylaea include:

• Staphylaea limacina (Lamarck, 1810)^[3]
• Staphylaea semiplota (Mighels, 1845)^[4]
• Staphylaea staphylaea (Linnaeus, 1758)^[5]

Synonyms

• Staphylaea nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758) is a synonym of Nucleolaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)^[6]