WoRMS taxon details
Propustularia surinamensis (G. Perry, 1811)
AphiaID: 419724
AphiaID: 419724
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Propustularia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Propustularia Schilder, 1927 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cypraea surinamensis Perry, 1811 (Original combination) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: Meyer C. 2003. Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 79: 401-459. page(s): 412 [details] additional source: Burgess, C.M. (1985) Cowries of the World. Gordon verhoef, Seacomber Publications, South Africa, Cape Town. XIV + 289 pp. page(s): 124 [details] additional source: Lorenz & Hubert (2000). A guide to worldwide cowries. ConchBooks 1-584 page(s): 217 [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belize [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Lesser Antilles [details] Mexico [details] North Brazil Shelf [details] Puerto Rico [details] San Andres [details] Venezuela [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Biology: This species is rarely found live, and most specimens in collections have been collected "ex pisces". At least in northern Brazil, it is found in depths between 25 and 135 m, on calcareous algae bottom. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Image |
| |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:419724 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| |||||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | ||||||||||||||
| Citation: Moretzsohn, F. (2013). Propustularia surinamensis (G. Perry, 1811). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419724 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
 The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |
