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Lopha cristagalli (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 216638

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Ostreoida (Order) > Ostreoidea (Superfamily) > Ostreidae (Family) > Lophinae (Subfamily) > Lopha (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Lopha Röding, 1798
Synonymised
taxa
  Alectryonia rara Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
Mytilus cristagalli Linnaeus, 1758
Ostrea cristagalli (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ostrea townsendi Melvill, 1898
Sources  basis of record: Sheppard, A (1984). The molluscan fauna of Chagos (Indian Ocean) and an analysis ot its broad distribution patterns. Coral Reefs 3: 43-50. [details]

basis of record: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.  [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 cockscomb oyster  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Chagos [details]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius [details]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Images 
Lopha cristagalli
Lopha cristagalli
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Lopha cristagalli
Lopha cristagalli
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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Lopha cristagalli
Lopha cristagalli
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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Lopha cristagalli
Lopha cristagalli
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216638
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1998-05-21 06:33:08Z  changed  Fondo, Esther
2010-09-23 10:34:21Z  changed  Huber, Markus
2012-07-14 19:34:51Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Lopha cristagalli (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216638 on 2013-05-23
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