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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVaughtia fenestrata (Gould, 1860) 
AphiaID: 404069

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 editorNeogastropoda (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMuricoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMuricidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOcenebrinae (Subfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVaughtia (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVaughtia Houart, 1995
Synonymised
taxa		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCominella fuscopicta Turton, 1932
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCominella puncturata Sowerby III, 1886 (synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCominella puncturata bipartita Turton, 1932 (synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorFusus gracilis Koch in Philippi, 1845
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOcenebra fenestrata (Gould, 1860)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPeristernia fenestrata Gould, 1860 (original combination)
Sources 
new combination reference Houart R. (1995) Pterymarchia n. gen. and Vaughtia n. gen., two new muricid genera (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Muricinae and Ocenebrinae). Apex 10(4): 127-136. [20 December 1995] [details]

identification resource Houart R., Kilburn R.N. & Marais A.P. (2010) Muricidae. Pp. 176-270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp. [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorfenestrate oyster-drill [from synonym]  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution 
From regional or thematic species database
South Africa
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorSouth Coast of South Africa [from synonym] [view taxon]
Link Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life
Images Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show unreviewed]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:404069
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-06-19 01:45:00Z  created  Houart, Roland
  
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  Citation: Houart, R. (2013). Vaughtia fenestrata (Gould, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404069 on 2013-12-11
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