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Purpura rudolphi (Chemnitz, 1788) 
AphiaID: 208645

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Rapaninae (Subfamily) > Purpura (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Purpura rudolphi Lamarck, 1822 accepted as Purpura persica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Purpura Bruguière, 1789
Synonymised
taxa
  Buccinum rudolphi Chemnitz, 1788
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]

Distribution Aldabra [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Link To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
Note  Description: Habitat: rocky shores [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208645
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2002-01-09 18:51:18Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-11-24 06:00:19Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Purpura rudolphi (Chemnitz, 1788). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208645 on 2013-05-24
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