page_title: Cypraea tigris
section_title: Taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Cypraea tigris / Taxonomy
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of radula of Cypraea tigris.
context_page_description: Cypraea tigris, commonly known as the tiger cowrie, is a species of cowry, a large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
context_section_description: The tiger cowry was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, and the species still bears its original name of Cypraea tigris. Its specific epithet tigris relates to its common name "tiger" (the shell however is spotted, not striped). This species is the type species of the genus Cypraea.
caption: Drawing of the radula teeth of Cypraea tigris
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