Cypraea
| Cypraea Temporal range: | |
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| Five views of a shell of Cypraea tigris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Subfamily: | Cypraeinae |
| Genus: | Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Type species | |
| Cypraea tigris | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pantherinaria Sacco, 1894 | |
Cypraea is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails or cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.