WoRMS taxon details
Purpura bufo Lamarck, 1822
AphiaID: 208642
AphiaID: 208642
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Rapaninae (Subfamily) > Purpura (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Purpura Bruguière, 1789 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Purpura bufonides Valenciennes, 1846 (synonym) Purpura callosa Lamarck, 1822 (synonym) Purpura timida Schubert & Wagner, 1829 Thais bufo (Lamarck, 1822) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
from synonym: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 89 [details] [view taxon] taxonomy source: Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102. [Published online 28 September 2012; Code-compliant paper version published January 2013], available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.014 [details] identification resource: Houart R., Kilburn R.N. & Marais A.P. (2010) Muricidae. Pp. 176-270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Madagascar [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208642 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Purpura bufo Lamarck, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208642 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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