What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Reticulate Cowrie-Helmet been recorded?

Cypraecassis testiculus occurrence evidence comes from 183 records in 28 countries and territories, from 1885 to 2022. Most records come from United States.

Reticulate Cowrie-Helmet
Reticulate Cowrie-Helmet — Photo (display-sized rendition): H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
GastropodaLittorinimorphaCassidaeCypraecassis

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

183 records across 28 countries and territories, 1885–2022.

Cypraecassis testiculus · GBIF taxon key 2299623

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

11 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18852022

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Reticulate Cowrie-Helmet has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Reticulate Cowrie-Helmet. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 90
Bahamas 23
Puerto Rico 15
Costa Rica 7
Cuba 6
ZZ 6
Belize 5
Dominican Republic 4
Haiti 3
Panama 3
Equatorial Guinea 2
Mexico 2
US Virgin Islands 2
Barbados 1
Brazil 1
Colombia 1
Cabo Verde 1
Curaçao 1
Spain 1
Honduras 1
Jamaica 1
St Kitts & Nevis 1
Cayman Islands 1
Montserrat 1
Nicaragua 1
Sierra Leone 1
Senegal 1
Venezuela 1
Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.