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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea caurica (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 216861

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 editorErronea (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea caurica (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea Troschel, 1863
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea caurica Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea lurica (misspelling)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea caurica caurica (Linnaeus, 1758) · accepted, alternate representation
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOvatipsa caurica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sources 
basis of record (of Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOvatipsa caurica (Linnaeus, 1758)) Robson, E. 1966. Notes on East African cowries. Journal of The East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum 25: 225-226. [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorthick-edged cowry  [details]
Direct child
taxa (8)
[show all]
[sort alpha..]		 Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea caurica corrosa (Gronovius, 1781)
Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea caurica dracaena (Born, 1778)
Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea caurica elongata (Perry, 1811)
Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea caurica quinquefasciata (Röding, 1798)
Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea caurica samoensis Lorenz, 2002

Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea caurica blaesa (Iredale, 1939) (taxon inquirendum)

Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea caurica caurica (Linnaeus, 1758) represented as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea caurica (Linnaeus, 1758) (alternate representation)

Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea caurica nabeqensis Heiman & Mienis, 2000 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErronea caurica quinquefasciata (Röding, 1798)
Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
Comores
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorComores [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Federal Republic of Somalia
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSomalia [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Indian Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorAldabra [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorChagos [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMascarene Basin [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorReunion [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Kenya
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorKenya [details]
Madagascar
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMadagascar [details]
Mozambique
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMozambique [details]
Red Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorRed Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Republic of Mauritius
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMauritius [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Seychelles
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSeychelles [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Tanzania
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTanzania [details]
(no group)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEast Africa [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life (18 barcodes) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank  
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
Images Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show unreviewed]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216861
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2010-10-02 15:31:39Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2014). Erronea caurica (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216861 on 2015-01-31
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