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Erosaria marginalis (Dillwyn, 1817) 
AphiaID: 216858

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 marginalis Dillwyn, 1817 (original combination)
 Cypraea marginalis pseudocellata (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
Sources  basis of record: Berry, L.E. (1954). Africa's rarest cowries. JEANHS XXII (95): 82-85. [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]

from synonym: Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 60 [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subspecies Erosaria marginalis marginalis (Dillwyn, 1827)
Environment marine
Distribution Kenya [details]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Images 
Erosaria marginalis
Erosaria marginalis
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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Erosaria marginalis
Erosaria marginalis
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Erosaria marginalis
Erosaria marginalis
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216858
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2010-10-03 15:39:41Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Erosaria marginalis (Dillwyn, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216858 on 2013-05-22
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