WoRMS taxon details
Mauritia scurra (Gmelin, 1791)
AphiaID: 216867
AphiaID: 216867
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Mauritia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Mauritia Troschel, 1863 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cypraea amarata Mörch, 1852 Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791 (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] additional source: Schilder, F. A. and Schilder, M. 1938. Prodrome of a monograph on living Cypraeidae. Proc. malac. Soc. Lond. 23: 119-231. page(s): 182 [details] additional source: Lorenz F. (2002) New worldwide cowries. Descriptions of new taxa and revisions of selected groups of living Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur-Cismar 20: 1-292, pls 1-40. [details] from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System , available online at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/collections-management [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Mauritia scurra indica (Gmelin, 1791) Subspecies Mauritia scurra scurra (Gmelin, 1791) Subspecies Mauritia scurra mundula Lorenz, 2002 (species inquirenda) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin (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] Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216867 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Mauritia scurra (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216867 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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