WoRMS taxon details
Mauritia depressa (J. E. Gray, 1824)
AphiaID: 216871
AphiaID: 216871
| 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 depressa J. E. Gray, 1824 | ||||||||||
| 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): 184 [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] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Mauritia depressa depressa J. E. Gray, 1824 Subspecies Mauritia depressa dispersa Schilder & Schilder, 1939 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | 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] Reunion (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 | ||||||||||
| Image |
| ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216871 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| ||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | |||||||||||
| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Mauritia depressa (J. E. Gray, 1824). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216871 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||
 The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |
