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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCallistocypraea testudinaria (Linnaeus) 
AphiaID: 216744

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGastropoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaenogastropoda (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLittorinimorpha (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCallistocypraea (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCallistocypraea testudinaria (Species)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChelycypraea testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCallistocypraea Schilder, 1927 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLyncina Troschel, 1863
Source  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]

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Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCallistocypraea testudinaria ingens Schilder accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChelycypraea testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
Tanzania
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTanzania [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216744
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2010-10-09 22:37:13Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2010). Callistocypraea testudinaria (Linnaeus). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216744 on 2017-07-28
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