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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMauritia mauritiana (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 216868

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 editorMauritia (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMauritia mauritiana (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMauritia Troschel, 1863
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea mauritiana Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea mauritiana Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMauritia mauritiana mauritiana (Linnaeus, 1758)
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]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMauritius cowrie [from synonym]Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorblack humped cowry [from synonym]  [details]
Direct child
taxa (1)
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Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMauritia mauritiana mauritiana (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMauritia mauritiana (Linnaeus, 1758)
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 [from synonym] [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 [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMtwapa [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorUngama Bay [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Madagascar
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMadagascar [from synonym] [details]
Mozambique
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMozambique [from synonym] [details]
Republic of Mauritius
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMauritius [from synonym] [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 [from synonym] [details]
(no group)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEast Africa [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
ImageChecked: verified by a taxonomic editor 
Mauritia mauritiana
Mauritia mauritiana
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216868
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2010-10-02 22:08:23Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2015). Mauritia mauritiana. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216868 on 2016-09-30
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