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Voluta aethiopica Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 215320

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Volutidae (Family) > Volutinae (Subfamily) > Volutini (Tribe) > Voluta (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (original combination)
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Accepted name  Melo aethiopica (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Melo aethiopicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Voluta Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: 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]

source of synonymy: 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]

LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215320
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Date   action   by
2002-01-03 14:31:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-03-25 19:03:33Z  changed  Bail, Patrice
2011-04-27 16:38:26Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Bail, P. (2013). Voluta aethiopica Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215320 on 2013-05-20
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