WoRMS taxon details
Cypraea felina Gmelin, 1791
AphiaID: 216818
AphiaID: 216818
| 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 | Melicerona felina (Gmelin, 1791) | ||||||||||
| 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: 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] | ||||||||||
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| All child taxa [hide all] | Subspecies Cypraea felina felina Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Melicerona felina felina (Gmelin, 1791) | ||||||||||
| 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] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216818 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea felina Gmelin, 1791. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216818 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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