WoRMS taxon details
Cypraea marginalis Dillwyn, 1817
AphiaID: 216752
AphiaID: 216752
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Cypraea (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (original combination) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Erosaria marginalis (Dillwyn, 1817) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp. page(s): 60 [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Cypraea marginalis marginalis Dillwyn, 1827 accepted as Erosaria marginalis marginalis (Dillwyn, 1827) Subspecies Cypraea marginalis pseudocellata (Schilder & Schilder, 1938) accepted as Erosaria marginalis (Dillwyn, 1817) | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Kenya [details] Mozambique [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216752 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea marginalis Dillwyn, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216752 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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