WoRMS taxon details
Leporicypraea mappa (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 396637
AphiaID: 396637
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Leporicypraea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Leporicypraea Iredale, 1930 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cypraea alga Perry, 1811 Cypraea mappa Linnaeus, 1758 Mauritia mappa (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Bouchet, P.; Fontaine, B. (2009). List of new marine species described between 2002-2006. Census of Marine Life. [details] 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: 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] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Leporicypraea mappa admirabilis Lorenz, 2002 Subspecies Leporicypraea mappa aliwalensis Lorenz, 2002 Subspecies Leporicypraea mappa mappa (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies Leporicypraea mappa rosea (Gray, 1824) Subspecies Leporicypraea mappa viridis (Kenyon, 1902) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| 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] 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 (12 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins) | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:396637 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Leporicypraea mappa (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=396637 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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