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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErosaria gangranosa (Dillwyn, 1817) 
AphiaID: 216856

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGastropoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaenogastropoda (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLittorinimorpha (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErosaria (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErosaria gangranosa (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErosaria Troschel, 1863
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea gangranosa Dillwyn, 1817
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea gangranosa Dillwyn, 1817 (original combination)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErosaria gangranosa gangranosa (Dillwyn, 1817) · accepted, alternate representation
Sources  basis of record Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129-144, 17 pls. [details]

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Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErosaria gangranosa reentsii (Dunker, 1852) (taxon inquirendum)

Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErosaria gangranosa gangranosa (Dillwyn, 1817) represented as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErosaria gangranosa (Dillwyn, 1817) (alternate representation)
Environment marine
Distribution 
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Kenya
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorKenya [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Red Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorRed Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Tanzania
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTanzania [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
ImageChecked: verified by a taxonomic editor 
Erosaria gangranosa
Erosaria gangranosa
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216856
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2010-10-02 22:08:23Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2015). Erosaria gangranosa. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216856 on 2016-09-28
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