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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArestorides argus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 527787

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 editorLittorinimorpha (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArestorides (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArestorides Iredale, 1930
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea argus Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLyncina argus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTalparia argus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sources  original description (of Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea argus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editoreyed cowrie [from synonym]  [details]
Direct child
taxa (3)
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[sort alpha..]		 Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArestorides argus argus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArestorides argus contracasta Lorenz, 2012
Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArestorides argus contrastriata (Perry, 1811)
Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
Comores
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorComores [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Federal Republic of Somalia
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSomalia [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Indian Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorAldabra [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorChagos [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMascarene Basin [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorReunion [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Kenya
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorKenya [details]
Madagascar
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMadagascar [details]
Mozambique
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMozambique [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Republic of Mauritius
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMauritius [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Seychelles
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSeychelles [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Tanzania
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTanzania [details]
Link Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
ImageChecked: verified by a taxonomic editor 
Arestorides argus
Arestorides argus
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:527787
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
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2010-10-02 15:31:39Z  created  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2014). Arestorides argus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527787 on 2014-07-23
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