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Erosaria poraria (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 216857

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Erosaria (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Erosaria Troschel, 1863
Synonymised
taxa		  Cypraea poraria Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
 Cypraea poraria poraria Linnaeus, 1758
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]

from synonym: Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Kenya [details]
Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
Image 
Erosaria poraria
Erosaria poraria
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216857
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2012-07-06 14:00:45Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Erosaria poraria (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216857 on 2013-05-19
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