WoRMS taxon details
Blasicrura hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 216743
AphiaID: 216743
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Blasicrura (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Bistolida hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Blasicrura Iredale, 1930 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cypraea hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129-144, 17 pls. [details] original description (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] basis of record (from synonym): Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Blasicrura hirundo francisca (Schilder & Schilder, 1933) accepted as Bistolida hirundo francisca (Schilder & Schilder, 1938) | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216743 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Blasicrura hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216743 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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