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Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 216888

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 globulus 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]

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): 126-127 [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 Pustularia globulus brevirostris Schilder & Schilder, 1938
Subspecies Pustularia globulus globulus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Pustularia globulus marerubra Lorenz, 2009
Subspecies Pustularia globulus sphaeridium Schilder & Schilder, 1938
Distribution Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Chagos (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]
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 (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Images 
Pustularia globulus
Pustularia globulus
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: checked by Moretzsohn, Fabio on 2013-05-17 07:31:18

Pustularia globulus
Pustularia globulus
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: checked by Moretzsohn, Fabio on 2013-05-17 07:31:26
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216888
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2011-11-10 00:14:28Z  checked  Moretzsohn, Fabio
  
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  Citation: Moretzsohn, F. (2013). Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216888 on 2013-05-18
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