WoRMS taxon details
Calpurnus verrucosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 216901
AphiaID: 216901
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Ovulidae (Family) > Prionovolvinae (Subfamily) > Calpurnus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Calpurnus Montfort, 1810 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Bulla verrucosa Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Ovula perla Röding, 1798 (synonym) Radius gibbus Rumphius, 1705 (non-binominal) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. [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 page(s): 726 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Cate, C. N. 1973. A systematic revision of the recent Cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger 15 (supplement): 1-117. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Solid, ovate shell, up to 4 cm, with a broad, flat base. Rounded lump at each extremity above siphonal and anal canals, coarse teeth on outer lip and a smooth columella. Shell white with pink-tinged canals. Habitat: shallow to deep waters on soft corals and sponges. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details] Spelling: C. verrucosa Linnaeus in Sheppard 1984 <106>. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216901 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Calpurnus verrucosus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216901 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||
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