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Cypraea edentula J. E. Gray, 1825 
AphiaID: 225228

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Cypraea (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Cypraeovula edentula (Gray, 1825)
Rank Species
Parent Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758
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]


additional source: 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): 58 [details]


additional source: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English toothless cowrie  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Forma Cypraea edentula f. nahoonensis Lorenz, 1989 accepted as Cypraeovula edentula nahoonensis Lorenz, 1989
Distribution East Coast of South Africa [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225228
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2006-03-21 08:10:26Z  created  Wambiji, Nina
2010-10-06 21:11:21Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea edentula J. E. Gray, 1825. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225228 on 2013-05-23
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