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Cypraea stolida Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 216783

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Cypraea (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (original combination)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Bistolida stolida (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Bistolida Cossmann, 1920
Stolida Jousseaume, 1884
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): 66 [details]


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Subspecies Cypraea stolida diauges Melvill, 1888 accepted as Bistolida diauges (Melvill, 1888)
Distribution Aldabra [details]
Chagos [details]
Comores [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216783
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-10-02 15:31:39Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea stolida Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216783 on 2013-05-24
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