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Dicathais orbita (Gmelin, 1791) 
AphiaID: 396664

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Rapaninae (Subfamily) > Dicathais (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Dicathais Macpherson & Gabriel, 1962
Synonymised
taxa
  Buccinum orbita Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)
Dicathais vector Thornley, 1952 (synonym)
Haustrum ventricosum Kaicher, 1980 (synonym)
Purpura aegrota Reeve, 1846 (synonym)
Purpura scalaris Menke, 1829 (synonym)
Purpura succincta Lamarck, 1816 (synonym)
Purpura textilosa Lamarck, 1816 (synonym)
Sources  additional source: Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. 2009 Recent Mollusca. Pp 196-219 in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.), The New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch [details]

additional source: Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102. [Published online 28 September 2012; Code-compliant paper version published January 2013], available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.014 [details]

Environment marine
Distribution New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (457 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Dicathais orbita
Dicathais orbita
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:396664
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2009-05-27 16:22:23Z  created  Houart, Roland
2010-02-16 10:18:10Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2013). Dicathais orbita (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=396664 on 2013-05-23
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