WoRMS taxon details
Cypraea caputserpentis Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 216758
AphiaID: 216758
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Cypraea (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Monetaria caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Ravitrona Iredale, 1930 | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: 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] 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: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Cypraea caputserpentis caputserpentis Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Monetaria caputserpentis caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] East Coast of South Africa [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Rather flattened shell with thickened margins, up to 4 cm. Dorsal surface brown with numerous cream spots. Lower sides and base dark chocolate-brown. Habitat: exposed lower eulittoral rocky shores. Distribution: W Indian Ocean. Regional names: Port. Cipreia cabeca de serpente (Richmond, 1997); tropical Indo-Pacific, also in Australia in Kalk (1958). [details] Spelling: C. caput-serpentis in Kalk (1958). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216758 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea caputserpentis Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216758 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||||||||
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