WoRMS taxon details
Harpa harpa (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 208158
AphiaID: 208158
| 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 |
Buccinum harpa Linnaeus, 1758 Harpa nobilis Lamarck, 1822 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 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] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Shells as the family H. harp, up to 8 cm, with twelve axial ribs. Colour creamy brown, crossed with thin, dark brown bands. Columella cream with dark brown blotches; aperture white with brown markings on lip. Habitat: shallow and deep sand. Distribution: W Indian Ocean to C Pacific Ocean. Regional names: Port. Harpa verdadeira. (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208158 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Harpa harpa (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208158 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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