Leporicypraea mappa

Map cowry
	A live individual of Cypraea mappa viewed dorsally.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Cypraea
Species:	C. mappa
Binomial name
	Cypraea mappa; Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
	Leporicypraea mappa (Linnaeus); Mauritia mappa (Linnaeus)

Cypraea mappa, common name the map cowry, is a species of cowry, a sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. It is considered an economically important species in the Indo-West Pacific, usually collected both for food and shell trading.^[2] The map cowry was named after its distinct color pattern, mainly because of the longitudinal lines and the easily distinguishable and sinuous mantle groove, which creates a resemblance to ancient maps.

References

^ Template:La icon Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae. (Laurentii Salvii). p. 211.
^ Poutiers, J. M. (1998).Gastropods in: FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes: The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 1. Seaweeds, corals, bivalves and gastropods. Rome, FAO, 1998. page 492.

[Linnaeus-1] Template:La icon Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae. (Laurentii Salvii). p. 211.

[FAO-2] Poutiers, J. M. (1998).Gastropods in: FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes: The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 1. Seaweeds, corals, bivalves and gastropods. Rome, FAO, 1998. page 492.

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