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Mauritia scurra (Gmelin, 1791) 
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]

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taxa

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 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
Images 
Mauritia scurra
Mauritia scurra
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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Mauritia scurra
Mauritia scurra
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216867
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2010-10-08 20:18:53Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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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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