WoRMS taxon details
Rapa rapa (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 215776
AphiaID: 215776
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Coralliophilinae (Subfamily) > Rapa (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Rapa Röding, 1798 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Bulla rapa (Linnaeus, 1758) Murex rapa Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Pyrula papyracea Lamarck, 1816 Rapa papyracea (Lamarck, 1816) Rapa pellucida Röding, 1798 Rapa penardi Montrouzier, 1856 Rapa striata Röding, 1798 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Oliverio M. (2008) Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. In: V. Héros, R.H. Cowie & P. Bouchet (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 481-585. page(s): 559 [details] additional source: Kilburn, R.N. (1977) Taxonomic studies on the marine Mollusca of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 23, 173–214. [details] from synonym: Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56 [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] 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] identification resource: Kilburn R.N., Marais J.P. & Marais A.P. (2010) Coralliophilinae. Pp. 272-292, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp. [details] | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215776 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Rapa rapa (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215776 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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