Zonarina (gastropod)
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| Zonarina Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil shell of Zonarina aturensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | †Zonarina Sacco, 1894 |
| Type species | |
| †Cypraea annulus var. pinguis Grateloup, 1846 | |
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Zonarina is an extinct genus of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Zonariinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
When Sacco established Zonarina, he included the single species Cypraea pinguis, with two varieties, longovulina and spiratina, both Sacco, 1894, and Dolin & Lozouet [2004, Cossmanniana, hors ser. 4: 39] have cited Cypraea pinguis longovulina Sacco, 1894, as the type species by OD. However, under Art. 68.3, C. pinguis is the type species by monotypy ("regardless of any cited subspecies").
