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Cypraea cernica G. B. Sowerby II, 1870 
AphiaID: 216767

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Cypraea (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Erosaria cernica (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
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]

basis of record: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Chagos [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Note  Description: Named after Cerné, the old name for Mauritius. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216767
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-03-01 15:31:58Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-10-02 15:31:39Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea cernica G. B. Sowerby II, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216767 on 2013-05-23
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