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Bistolida owenii (G. B. Sowerby I, 1837) 
AphiaID: 390536

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Bistolida (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Bistolida Cossmann, 1920
Synonymised
taxa
  Blasicrura owenii (Sowerby, 1837)
Cypraea oweni [sic] (misspelling)
Cypraea owenii Sowerby I, 1837
Sources  from synonym: 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] [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]

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): 66 [details] [view taxon]


taxonomy source: Lorenz F. & Chiapponi M. (2005) Revision of the Bistolida owenii-complex (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) with the description of a new subspecies. Visaya 1(5): 22-36. [November 2005] [details]

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 Subspecies Bistolida owenii owenii (G. B. Sowerby I, 1837)

Subspecies Bistolida owenii menkeana (Deshayes, 1863) (nomen dubium)

Subspecies Bistolida owenii piae Lorenz & Chiapponi, 2005 accepted as Bistolida piae Lorenz & Chiapponi, 2005
Subspecies Bistolida owenii vasta Schilder & Schilder, 1938 accepted as Bistolida vasta Schilder & Schilder, 1938
Distribution 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]
Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Bistolida owenii
Bistolida owenii
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:390536
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2009-04-03 07:44:16Z  created  Decock, Wim
2010-09-30 13:42:21Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
2011-04-03 06:48:38Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Bistolida owenii (G. B. Sowerby I, 1837). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=390536 on 2013-05-20
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