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Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 216886

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Pustularia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pustularia Swainson, 1840
Synonymised
taxa
  Cypraea cicercula Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  basis of record: Verdcourt, B. (1959). The cowries of the East African Coast: Supplement II. JEANHS XXIII (100): 130-134. [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: Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [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]

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taxa

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 Subspecies Pustularia cicercula avrilae Heiman, 2009
Subspecies Pustularia cicercula cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Pustularia cicercula lienardi (Jousseaume, 1874)
Subspecies Pustularia cicercula takahashii Moretzsohn, 2007

Subspecies Pustularia cicercula tricornis Jousseaume, 1874 accepted as Pustularia cicercula cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Distribution Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Pustularia cicercula
Pustularia cicercula
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: checked by Moretzsohn, Fabio on 2013-05-17 07:29:47
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216886
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2011-04-04 18:49:32Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216886 on 2013-05-22
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