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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea teres Gmelin, 1791 
AphiaID: 216814

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGastropoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaenogastropoda (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLittorinimorpha (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea teres (Species)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTalostolida teres (Gmelin, 1791)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTalostolida Iredale, 1931
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea Linnaeus, 1758
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea teres Gmelin, 1791
Sources  basis of record Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS) [details]

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Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea teres alveolus Tapparone Canefri accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTalostolida teres alveolus (Tapparone Canefri, 1882)
Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea teres pellucens Melvill, 1888 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTalostolida pellucens (Melvill, 1888)
Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea teres teres Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTalostolida teres teres (Gmelin, 1791) represented as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTalostolida teres (Gmelin, 1791)
Environment marine
Distribution 
From editor or global species database
New Zealand
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNew Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From other sources
Comores
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorComores [details]
Federal Republic of Somalia
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSomalia [details]
Indian Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorAldabra [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorChagos [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMascarene Basin [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorReunion [details]
Kenya
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorKenya [details]
Madagascar
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMadagascar [details]
Mozambique
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMozambique [details]
Red Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorRed Sea [details]
Republic of Mauritius
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMauritius [details]
Seychelles
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSeychelles [details]
Tanzania
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTanzania [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216814
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-09-30 13:42:21Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
2011-09-25 13:40:55Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2015). Cypraea teres. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216814 on 2016-09-26
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