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Vaughtia scrobiculata (Dunker, 1846) 
AphiaID: 404073

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Ocenebrinae (Subfamily) > Vaughtia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Vaughtia Houart, 1995
Synonymised
taxa
  Fusus scrobiculatus Dunker in Philippi, 1846 (original combination)
Murex crawfordi G. B. Sowerby III, 1892 (synonym)
Ocenebra scrobiculata (Philippi, 1846)
Purpura cribrosa Küster, 1859
Sources  basis of record: 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): 88 [details]


additional source: Lussi M. (2012) Description of three new species of Vaughtia from off the Eastern Cape, South Africa with a revision of the genus (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricidae) from Southern Madagascar. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 76: 5-13. [July 2012] [details]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 82 [details] [view taxon]


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]

Environment marine
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Vaughtia scrobiculata
Vaughtia scrobiculata
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:404073
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2009-06-19 01:45:00Z  created  Houart, Roland
  
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  Citation: Houart, R. (2013). Vaughtia scrobiculata (Dunker, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404073 on 2013-05-22
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