WoRMS taxon details
Cypraea carneola Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 216762
AphiaID: 216762
| 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 | Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| 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 carneola crassa Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies Cypraea carneola minor Dautzenberg, 1923 accepted as Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies Cypraea carneola sowerbyi Anton, 1838 accepted as Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] East Coast of South Africa [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (60 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Solid, ovate shell, up to 5 cm, with a pale, beige dome and 4 or 5 transverse orange brown bands. Base tan with purple teeth. Habitat: in shallow and deep waters, under boulders on reef crest. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216762 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea carneola Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216762 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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