WoRMS taxon details
Purpura persica (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 208648
AphiaID: 208648
| 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 |
Buccinum persicum Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Purpura aterrima Lesson, 1842 Purpura inerma Reeve, 1846 (synonym) Purpura rudolphi Lamarck, 1822 (synonym) Thais rudolphi Lamarck | |||||||||||||
| 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] additional 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] 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] from synonym: Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (114 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Large, thick shell, up to 10 cm, with large body whorl, very expanded aperture and a short, blunt spire. Surface sculptured with spiralled, widely beaded cords with plain spiral cords between. Columella almost straight. Colour chocolate-brown with white spaces between beads on the beaded cords; aperture and columella white. Habitat: shallow rocky areas. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208648 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Houart, R. (2013). Purpura persica (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208648 on 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||
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