WoRMS taxon details
Cypraea histrio Gmelin, 1791
AphiaID: 216781
AphiaID: 216781
| 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 histrio (Gmelin, 1791) | |||||||||||||
| 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] additional source: Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp. page(s): 64 [details] | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Spelling: Dautzenberg (1929) cites Cypraea histrio Meuschen, 1787 [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216781 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea histrio Gmelin, 1791. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216781 on 2013-06-18 | ||||||||||||||
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