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Bernaya is a genus of sea snails or cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernaya, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3244847	https://www.gbif.org/species/3244847
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	9543	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=9543

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cypraeidae : Bernaya

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Cypraeidae : Bernaya

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
superorder	Hypsogastropoda
infraorder	Littorinimorpha	Golikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamily	Cypraeoidea
family	Cypraeidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Bernayinae	Schilder 1927
genus	Bernaya	Jousseaume 1884

Scientific Name

Bernaya Jousseaume, 1884

Name Published In

Jousseaume, F. (1884). Division des Cypraeidae. Le Naturaliste. 6(52): 414-415.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Bernaya	genus	belongs to Bernayinae	stated with evidence	Schilder, 1927
Bernaya	genus	belongs to Cypraeidae	stated without evidence	Abbass, 1967
Bernaya	genus	belongs to Cypraeorbini	stated with evidence	Gliozzi and Malatesta, 1983
Bernaya	genus	belongs to Cypraeidae	stated with evidence	Groves, 1990
Bernaya	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Bernaya	subgenus	belongs to Cypraea	implied	Islamoglu and Taner, 2002
Bernaya	genus	belongs to Bernayinae	stated with evidence	Perrilliat et al., 2003
Bernaya	genus	subjective synonym of Cypraeorbis	stated with evidence	Darragh, 2011
Bernaya	genus	belongs to Bernayinae	stated with evidence	Bouchet and Rosenberg, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (9.7%)

First Recorded Appearance

152 - 145 Ma
Late Jurassic

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cypraeidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

omnivore, grazer (based on Cypraeidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernaya

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Bernaya (Bernaya) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		16	152 Ma Late Jurassic	41.3 Ma Eocene
Bernaya (Protocypraea) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		27	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Bernaya angystoma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya beardi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya catei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya crawfordcate species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya crawfordcatei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya excellens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya grovesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya jeanae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya louellasaulae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya marcominii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya media species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Bernaya mississippiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya popenoei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya quarunensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Bernaya rineyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya sayni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya schouveri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya sixi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bernaya zoiloides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea argonautica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea azevedoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea berryessae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea cunliffei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea depereti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea gemmellaroi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea globuliformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea gualalaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea kayei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea obesa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eocypraea orbignana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Erato veraghoorensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gisortia coromandelica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ovula baluchistanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ovula ellipsoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palaeocypraea burlingtonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Protocypraea kohatica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Bernayia Harris, 1897	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cypraeidae : *Bernayia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1884	Bernaya Jousseaume
1891	Bernayia Cossmann
1906	Cypraea (Bernayia) Oppenheim p. 301
1925	Cypraea (Bernayia) Vredenburg p. 303
1927	Bernaya Schilder
1967	Bernaya Abbass p. 64
1983	Bernaya Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 103

Year	Name and Author
1990	Bernaya Groves p. 277
1992	Bernaya Squires and Demetrion p. 31
2002	Cypraea (Bernaya) Islamoglu and Taner p. 49
2002	Bernaya Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Bernaya Perrilliat et al. p. 42
2016	Bernaya Bouchet and Rosenberg

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Schilder F. A. (1927) Revision der Cypraeacea (Moll., Gastr.), Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 91 A/10, 1-165

Abbass H. L. (1967) A monograph on the Egyptian Paleocene and Eocene gastropods, United Arab Republic, Geological Survey-Geological Museum, Palaeontological Series, Monograph 4, 1-154

Gliozzi E., Malatesta A. (1983) I molluschi del Paleocene di Baixa Chinhauanine nel bacino del Rio Massintonto (Maputo - Mozambico), Geologica Romana 22, 85-145

Groves L. T. (1990) New Species of Late Cretaceous Cypraeacea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from California and Mississippi, and a Review of Cretaceous Cypraeaceans of North America, The Veliger 33 3, 272-285

Squires R. L., Demetrion R. A. (1992) Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 434, 1-55

Islamoglu Y., Taner G. (2002) Antalya Miyosen havzasnn Gastropoda faunas (Bat-Orta Toroslar, GB Türkiye), Maden Tetkik ve Arama Dergisi 127, 29-65

Perrilliat M. d. C., Avendaño J., et al (2003) Middle Eocene Cypraeoideans from the San Juan Formation, Chiapas, southern Mexico, Revista Mexicana de Ciecnias Geológicas 20 1, 41-51

Bouchet P., Rosenberg G. (2016) Bernaya† Jousseaume, 1884, MolluscaBase (2015)

Aphia2006/E. Africa Mar. Species DB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (extant) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 9 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Jousseaume, F. (1884). Division des Cypraeidae. Le Naturaliste. 6(52): 414-415. - via World Register of Marine Species

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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