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Cypraea alga Perry, 1811 
AphiaID: 216819

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Cypraea (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Leporicypraea mappa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758
Source  source of synonymy: Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS[details]

Distribution Tanzania [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216819
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1998-05-22 10:11:26Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-03-20 15:24:09Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea alga. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216819 on 2013-05-21
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