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Siphonaria capensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 
AphiaID: 215285

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > [unassigned] Heterobranchia (Infraclass) > Siphonarioidea (Superfamily) > Siphonariidae (Family) > Siphonaria (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Siphonaria G. B. Sowerby I, 1823
Sources  original description: Quoy, J.C.R. & Gaimard, P. (1833) Mollusques. In Dumont d’Urville, M.J. (Ed.) Voyage de Découverts de l’Astrolabe, Éxécuté par Ordre du Roi Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M. J. Dumont d’ Urville. Zoologie, Tome 2. J. Tatsu [details]

basis of record: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details]

basis of record: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

additional source: Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 182 [details]


Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English Cape false limpet  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution East Coast of South Africa [details]
Mozambique [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
South Coast of South Africa [details]
West Coast of South Africa [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (132 nucleotides; 123 proteins)
To MNHN Type collection
Notes  Distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]

Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]
Image 
Siphonaria capensis
Siphonaria capensis
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

To MNHN Type collection  
To MNHN Type collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215285
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2000-09-11 06:47:01Z  created  Govaerts, Ann
2000-09-14 06:49:43Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2011-10-08 12:59:09Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
2012-07-04 18:46:28Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Siphonaria capensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215285 on 2013-05-22
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