A live Ovatipsa chinensis with its mantle fully extended
Five views of a shell of Ovatipsa chinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Cypraeoidea
Family:
Cypraeidae
Genus:
Ovatipsa
Species:
O. chinensis
Binomial name
Ovatipsa chinensis
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
Cribraria chinensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Cribraria cruenta
Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791 (basionym)
Cypraea cruenta
Erronea chinensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Ovatipsa chinensis common name the Chinese cowrie, is a species of cowry, a sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
^ abWoRMS : Ovatipsa chinensis; accessed : 11 October 2010