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Epitonium coronatum (Lamarck, 1816) 
AphiaID: 207953

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order) > Epitonioidea (Superfamily) > Epitoniidae (Family) > Epitonium (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Epitonium Röding, 1798
Synonymised
taxa		  Epitonium (Gyroscala) coronatum (Lamarck, 1816)
 Epitonium africanum Bartsch, 1915
 Gyroscala coronata (Lamarck, 1816)
 Scala coronata Lamarck, 1816
Sources  basis of record: Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56 [details]

status source: Kilburn, R. N. 1972. Taxonomic notes on South African marine Mollusca (2), with the description of new species and subspecies of Conus, Nassarius, Vexillum and Demoulia. Annals of the Natal Museum 21(2):391-437, 15 figs. [details]

basis of record (from synonym): Kilburn, R.N. (1985). The Family Epitoniidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Ann. Natal Mus. 27(1): 239-337. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 80 [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Aldabra [details]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Epitonium coronatum
Epitonium coronatum
added on 2013-01-21 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207953
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-05-20 10:49:49Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2012-07-02 01:35:29Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Epitonium coronatum (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207953 on 2013-06-20
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