WoRMS taxon details
Cypraea arabica Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 216764
AphiaID: 216764
| 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 | Mauritia arabica (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Arabica Jousseaume, 1884 | |||||||||||||
| 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] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| All child taxa [hide all] | Forma Cypraea arabica f. immanis (Schilder & Schilder, 1939) accepted as Mauritia arabica immanis Schilder & Schilder, 1939 Subspecies Cypraea arabica immanis (Schilder & Schilder, 1938) accepted as Mauritia arabica immanis Schilder & Schilder, 1939 | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Comores [details] East Coast of South Africa [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 (85 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: An elongate, oval, humped shell, up to 8 cm. Dorsally ornamented with longitudinal broken, irregular, dark brown lines on paler background. Base cream with brown teeth. Habitat: coral reefs, in shallow water. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216764 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea arabica Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216764 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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