WoRMS taxon details
Cypraea contaminata Sowerby I, 1832
AphiaID: 216808
AphiaID: 216808
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Cypraea (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Palmadusta contaminata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) | ||||||||||||||||
| 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): 66 [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Reunion [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216808 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea contaminata Sowerby I, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216808 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||||||||
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