WoRMS taxon details
Monetaria moneta (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 216874
AphiaID: 216874
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Monetaria (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Monetaria Troschel, 1863 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cypraea moneta Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Monetaria icterina (Lamarck) (Synonym) | |||||||||||||
| 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] 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: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] East Africa [details] East Coast of South Africa (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] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mtwapa (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] Ungama Bay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216874 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Monetaria moneta (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216874 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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