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Erronea onyx (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 216860

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

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Subspecies Erronea onyx adusta (Lamarck, 1810) accepted as Erronea succincta adusta (Lamarck, 1810)
Distribution Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique (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 (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Erronea onyx
Erronea onyx
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216860
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2010-10-06 21:11:21Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Erronea onyx (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216860 on 2013-05-23
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