WoRMS taxon details
Cypraea mauritiana Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 216779
AphiaID: 216779
| 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 mauritiana (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Maurina Jousseaume, 1884 Mauritia Troschel, 1863 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Mtwapa [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] Ungama Bay [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (56 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: A large, heavy, humped shell with a very glossy dome, up to 10 cm. Curved aperture with strong teeth, base flat and concave with angular margins. Upper surface brown with light spots, sides and base dark chocolate brown. Habitat: under rocks, in shallow and deep water, near coral reefs. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216779 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea mauritiana Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216779 on 2013-06-18 | ||||||||||||||
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