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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea capensis Gray, 1828 
AphiaID: 225225

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGastropoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaenogastropoda (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLittorinimorpha (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea capensis (Species)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted (original combination)
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeovula capensis (Gray, 1828)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeovula Gray, 1824
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea Linnaeus, 1758
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea capensis Gray, 1828
Sources  basis of record Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 61 [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCape cowrie  [details]
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Forma Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea capensis f. elizabethensis Rous, 1905 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeovula capensis (Gray, 1828)
Environment marine
Distribution 
From regional or thematic species database
South Africa
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorEast Coast of South Africa [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225225
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-03-21 08:10:26Z  created  Wambiji, Nina
2010-10-02 22:08:23Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2015). Cypraea capensis. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225225 on 2016-10-01
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