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Mauritia histrio (Gmelin, 1791) 
AphiaID: 216870

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 histrio Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)
 Cypraea reticulata Martyn, 1784 (non-binominal)
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): 183 [details]

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

from synonym: Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 64 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. J. conchyliol. 68: 21-74 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English harlequin cowry  [details]
English history cowrie  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
East Africa [details]
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]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
Images 
Mauritia histrio
Mauritia histrio
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Mauritia histrio
Mauritia histrio
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216870
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
1998-05-20 07:48:52Z  changed  Fondo, Esther
2010-10-02 22:08:23Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Mauritia histrio (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216870 on 2013-05-21
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