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Cypraea asellus Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 216845

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  Palmadusta asellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Evenaria Iredale, 1930
Parent Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS[details]

Distribution Aldabra [details]
Chagos [details]
Comores [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (37 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216845
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-10-03 15:39:41Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea asellus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216845 on 2013-05-23
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