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Mauritia arabica (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 216872

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 arabica Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
Sources  source of synonymy: Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS) [details]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

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

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Arabian cowrie (from synonym)  [details]
English Arabic cowrie (from synonym)  [details]
Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subspecies Mauritia arabica arabica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Mauritia arabica asiatica Schilder & Schilder, 1939
Subspecies Mauritia arabica immanis Schilder & Schilder, 1939

Subspecies Mauritia arabica grayana Schilder, 1930 accepted as Mauritia grayana Schilder, 1930
Subspecies Mauritia arabica merguina Lorenz & Huber, 1993 accepted as Mauritia arabica asiatica Schilder & Schilder, 1939
Environment marine
Distribution Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
East Coast of South Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Kenya [details]
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]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
Images 
Mauritia arabica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Mauritia arabica (Linnaeus, 1758)
added on 2012-05-25 - author: WJ, Chen & Robert L.C. Lo ()
qualitystatus: checked by Moretzsohn, Fabio on 2013-05-17 07:04:38

Mauritia arabica
Mauritia arabica
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: checked by Moretzsohn, Fabio on 2013-05-17 07:04:57

Mauritia arabica
Mauritia arabica
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: checked by Moretzsohn, Fabio on 2013-05-17 07:05:10
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216872
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2010-10-02 15:31:39Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Mauritia arabica (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216872 on 2013-05-22
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