WoRMS taxon details
Cypraea moneta Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 216838
AphiaID: 216838
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Cypraea (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (original combination) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Monetaria moneta (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Monetaria Troschel, 1863 | |||||||||||||
| 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] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] East Coast of South Africa [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Mtwapa [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] Ungama Bay [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (203 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Broad shell with knobbly outline and raised dome, up to 4 cm. Colour creamy, yellowish or pale green, occasionally with three faint darker bands. Habitat: various, especially shallow seagrass beds. Distribution: Indo-Pacific; tropical Indo-Pacific, also in Australia in Kalk (1958). Regional names: Kis. Kaure. (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216838 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea moneta Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216838 on 2013-06-18 | ||||||||||||||
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