WoRMS taxon details
Cypraea lynx Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 216793
AphiaID: 216793
| 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 | Lyncina lynx (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Lyncina Troschel, 1861 | ||||||||||
| 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: Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Cypraea lynx lynx Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Lyncina lynx (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (71 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216793 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea lynx Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216793 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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