WoRMS taxon details
Melicerona felina (Gmelin, 1791)
AphiaID: 529733
AphiaID: 529733
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Melicerona (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Melicerona Iredale, 1930 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cypraea felina Gmelin, 1791 Palmadusta felina (Gmelin, 1791) | |||||||
| Sources |
basis of record (from synonym): Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129-144, 17 pls. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Melicerona felina felina (Gmelin, 1791) Subspecies Melicerona felina fabula (Kiener, 1843) (species inquirenda) | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] East Coast of South Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins) | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:529733 | |||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Melicerona felina (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=529733 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||
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