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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMauritia depressa (J.E. Gray, 1824) 
AphiaID: 216871

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 depressa (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMauritia Troschel, 1863
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea depressa J.E. Gray, 1824
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMauritia depressa depressa Gray, 1824 · accepted, alternate representation
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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[sort alpha..]		 Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMauritia depressa dispersa Schilder & Schilder, 1939

Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMauritia depressa depressa Gray, 1824 represented as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMauritia depressa (J.E. Gray, 1824) (alternate representation)
Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
Comores
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorComores [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Indian Ocean
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 [details]
Madagascar
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMadagascar [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Republic of Mauritius
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMauritius [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Tanzania
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTanzania [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank  
ImageChecked: verified by a taxonomic editor 
Mauritia depressa
Mauritia depressa
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216871
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2010-10-06 21:11:21Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2014). Mauritia depressa. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216871 on 2015-01-26
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