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Cypraea beckii Gaskoin, 1836 
AphiaID: 216835

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Cypraea (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (original combination)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Erosaria beckii (Gaskoin, 1836)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Paulonaria Iredale, 1930
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]

status source: Kilburn, R.N. (1974) Taxonomic notes on South African marine Mollusca (3): Gastropoda: Prosobranchia, with descriptions of new taxa of Naticidae, Fasciolariidae, Magilidae, Volutomitridae and Turridae. Annals of the Natal Museum, 22, 187–220. [details]

Distribution Mascarene Basin (probably not valid[details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216835
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-03-17 09:54:29Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2010-10-03 15:39:41Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea beckii Gaskoin, 1836. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216835 on 2013-05-24
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