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Purpura pica Blainville, 1832 
AphiaID: 208649

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Rapaninae (Subfamily) > Purpura (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
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Accepted name  Menathais tuberosa (Röding, 1798)
Rank Species
Parent Purpura Bruguière, 1789
Source  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]

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Variety Purpura pica var. major Couturier, 1907 accepted as Menathais tuberosa (Röding, 1798)
Distribution Madagascar [details]
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208649
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Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2001-11-28 17:45:10Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2002-01-09 18:51:18Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-06-10 18:20:56Z  changed  Houart, Roland
2012-12-28 02:00:29Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2013). Purpura pica Blainville, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208649 on 2013-05-21
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