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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeovula capensis (Gray, 1828) 
AphiaID: 390548

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 editorCypraeovula (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeovula J.E. Gray, 1824
Synonymised
taxa		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea capensis Gray, 1828 (original combination)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea capensis f. elizabethensis Rous, 1905
Sources  additional source (of Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea capensis Gray, 1828) 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]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCape cowrie [from synonym]  [details]
Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeovula capensis archilyra Van Heesvelde & Deprez, 2006
Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeovula capensis capensis (Gray, 1828)
Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeovula capensis gonubiensis Massier, 1993
Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeovula capensis gorda Van Heesvelde & Deprez, 2006
Environment marine
Distribution 
From regional or thematic species database
South Africa
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorEast Coast of South Africa [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
ImageChecked: verified by a taxonomic editor 
Cypraeovula capensis
Cypraeovula capensis
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:390548
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-04-03 07:44:16Z  created  Decock, Wim
2010-09-30 13:42:21Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraeovula capensis (Gray, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=390548 on 2014-03-07
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