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Mauritia grayana Schilder, 1930 
AphiaID: 216869

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 grayana (Schilder, 1930)
 Mauritia arabica grayana Schilder, 1930
Sources  basis of record: Fishelson, L., 1971. Ecology and distribution of the benthic fauna in the shallow waters of the Red Sea. Marine Biology, 10/2: 113-133. [details] [full text]

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]

basis of record (from synonym): Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

taxonomy source (from synonym): Heiman E.L. (2004) Intraspecific variation in Mauritia arabica (Linnaeus, 1758). Visaya 1(2):4-18. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Eritrea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
Images 
Mauritia grayana
Mauritia grayana
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: checked by Moretzsohn, Fabio on 2013-02-24 09:07:01

Mauritia grayana
Mauritia grayana
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: checked by Moretzsohn, Fabio on 2013-02-24 09:07:13

Mauritia grayana
Mauritia grayana
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: checked by Moretzsohn, Fabio on 2013-02-24 09:07:22
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216869
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1998-07-15 06:27:44Z  created  Fondo, Esther
1998-07-30 06:28:48Z  changed  Fondo, Esther
2010-10-06 21:11:21Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Mauritia grayana Schilder, 1930. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216869 on 2013-06-20
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