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Cypraea pantherina Lightfoot, 1786 
AphiaID: 216812

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Cypraea (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Pantherinaria Sacco, 1894
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: Lorenz & Hubert (2000). A guide to worldwide cowries. ConchBooks 1-584
page(s): 66 [details]

additional source: Burgess, C.M. (1985) Cowries of the World. Gordon verhoef, Seacomber Publications, South Africa, Cape Town. XIV + 289 pp.
page(s): 78 [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English panther cowrie  [details]
Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subspecies Cypraea pantherina pantherina Lightfoot, 1786
Subspecies Cypraea pantherina rasnasraniensis Heiman & Mienis, 2001
Environment marine
Distribution Eritrea [details]
Red Sea [details]
Somalia [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (51 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Images 
Cypraea pantherina
Cypraea pantherina
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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Cypraea pantherina
Cypraea pantherina
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Cypraea pantherina
Cypraea pantherina
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Cypraea pantherina
Cypraea pantherina
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216812
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-06-07 07:51:36Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1997-11-12 07:24:15Z  changed  Fondo, Esther
2010-10-02 15:31:39Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
2011-06-08 21:32:57Z  changed  Moretzsohn, Fabio
2012-07-06 14:00:45Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F. (2013). Cypraea pantherina Lightfoot, 1786. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216812 on 2013-05-22
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