Monetaria
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| Monetaria | |
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| The underside of a live Monetaria moneta with the mantle partially retracted | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Monetaria Troschel, 1863[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cypraea moneta Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Monetaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
The generic placement is based on the molecular work of Meyer (2003). Some authors have previously placed species in the genus Erosaria (e.g. caputserpentis, by Lorenz and Hubert, 2000) [1]
