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Purpuradusta fimbriata (Gmelin, 1791) 
AphiaID: 390567

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Purpuradusta (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Purpuradusta Schilder, 1939
Synonymised
taxa
  Cypraea fimbriata Gmelin, 1791
Palmadusta fimbriata (Gmelin, 1791)
Sources  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): 62 [details] [view taxon]


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]

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 Subspecies Purpuradusta fimbriata durbanensis (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
Subspecies Purpuradusta fimbriata fimbriata (Gmelin, 1791)
Subspecies Purpuradusta fimbriata marquesana Lorenz, 2002
Subspecies Purpuradusta fimbriata unifasciata (Mighels, 1845)
Subspecies Purpuradusta fimbriata waikikiensis Schilder, 1933

Subspecies Purpuradusta fimbriata quasigracilis Lorenz, 1989 (species inquirenda)
Distribution Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
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]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Purpuradusta fimbriata
Purpuradusta fimbriata
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:390567
Taxonomic
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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). Purpuradusta fimbriata (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=390567 on 2013-05-23
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