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Cypraea staphylaea Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 216791

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
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Accepted name  Staphylaea staphylaea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Staphylaea Jousseaume, 1884
Parent Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English stippled cowrie  [details]
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Forma Cypraea staphylaea f. laevigata Dautzenberg, 1932 accepted as Staphylaea staphylaea laevigata (Dautzenberg, 1932)
Subspecies Cypraea staphylaea laevigata (Dautzenberg, 1932) accepted as Staphylaea staphylaea laevigata (Dautzenberg, 1932)
Distribution Aldabra [details]
Chagos [details]
Comores [details]
East Coast of South Africa [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
South Mozambique [details]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Note  Spelling: C. staphylea in Vine 1986  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216791
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1997-12-27 13:13:25Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-10-02 22:08:23Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea staphylaea Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216791 on 2013-05-21
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