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Mauritia arabica immanis Schilder & Schilder, 1939 
AphiaID: 224004

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Mauritia (Genus) > Mauritia arabica (Species)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Subspecies
Parent Mauritia arabica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonymised
taxa		  Cypraea arabica f. immanis (Schilder & Schilder, 1939)
 Cypraea arabica immanis (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
Sources  original description: Schilder, F. A. and Schilder, M. 1938. Prodrome of a monograph on living Cypraeidae. Proc. malac. Soc. Lond. 23: 119-231.
page(s): 183 [details]

from synonym: Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 64 [details] [view taxon]

taxonomy source: Heiman E.L. (2004) Intraspecific variation in Mauritia arabica (Linnaeus, 1758). Visaya 1(2):4-18. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Arabic cowry  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution East Africa [details]
Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
Note  Original description: The original description was published in the Prodrome of a monograph on living Cypraeidae, which was published in two parts (although not clear), in 1938-1939. Mauritia arabica appeared on the March 1939 part, hence description date is 1939. [details]
Image 
Mauritia arabica immanis
Mauritia arabica immanis
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224004
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2010-10-02 15:31:39Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
2011-11-10 00:14:28Z  changed  Moretzsohn, Fabio
  
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  Citation: Moretzsohn, F.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Mauritia arabica immanis Schilder & Schilder, 1939. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224004 on 2013-05-21
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