WoRMS taxon details
Palmadusta asellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 216882
AphiaID: 216882
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Palmadusta (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Palmadusta Iredale, 1930 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cypraea asellus Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) | ||||||||||
| 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: 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] 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 Palmadusta asellus asellus (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies Palmadusta asellus bitaeniata (Geret, 1903) Subspecies Palmadusta asellus latefasciata Schilder, 1930 Subspecies Palmadusta asellus vespacea (Melvill, 1905) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenya [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216882 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Palmadusta asellus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216882 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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