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Harpa davidis Röding, 1798 
AphiaID: 208157

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Harpidae (Family) > Harpinae (Subfamily) > Harpa (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Harpa Röding, 1798
Synonymised
taxa		  Harpa nablium Mörch, 1852
Sources  basis of record: Walls, J.G. (1980). Conchs, tibias and harps. A survey of the molluscan families Strombidae and Harpidae. T.F.H. Publications Ltd, Hong Kong. [details]

basis of record: DANCE, S.P. & G.T. POPPE, 1999 Family Harpidae. In : A Conchological Iconography (ConchBooks, ed.), 69 p. [details]

basis of record: Rehder H.A. (1973). The family Harpidae of the world. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(16) : 207-274. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Madras harp  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Chagos [details]
Comores [details]
Djibouti [details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Eritrea [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Note  Distribution: Distribution: widespread over Indo-Pacific, from eastern Africa to Hawaii (Walls, 1980) [details]
Image 
Harpa davidis
Harpa davidis
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208157
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1998-05-26 07:50:32Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2001-12-09 13:54:23Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-12-19 16:43:08Z  checked  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Harpa davidis Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208157 on 2013-06-19
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