WoRMS taxon details
Cypraea annulus Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 216777
AphiaID: 216777
| 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 | Monetaria annulus (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: Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [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 annulus camelorum Rochebrune, 1884 accepted as Monetaria annulus (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] South Mozambique [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (100 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Similar to C. moneta, but more oval in outline, up to 3 cm. Strong teeth, with slight ridges on columella. Colour cream-white, yellowish or greyish with conspicuous golden ring. Habitat: in shallow water, tide pools, under stones or amongst seagrasses. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997); tropical Indo-Pacific, also in Australia in Kalk (1958). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216777 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea annulus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216777 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||||||||
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