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Vasum ceramicum (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 211101

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Turbinellidae (Family) > Vasinae (Subfamily) > Vasum (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Vasum Röding, 1798
Synonymised
taxa		  Murex ceramicus Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
Sources  basis of record: Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [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: 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] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English ceramic vase  [details]
Distribution Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Note  Description: Description: As V. turbinellus, but shell more elongated, up to 14 cm, with a longer siphonal canal and only three strong, columella folds. Habitat: lower eulittoral, rocky areas. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details]
Image 
Vasum ceramicum
Vasum ceramicum
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211101
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-12-14 13:27:18Z  checked  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Vasum ceramicum (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211101 on 2013-05-22
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