WoRMS taxon details
Ovatipsa chinensis (Gmelin, 1791)
AphiaID: 530882
AphiaID: 530882
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Ovatipsa (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Ovatipsa Iredale, 1931 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cribraria chinensis (Gmelin, 1791) Cribraria cruenta Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791 (original combination) Cypraea chinensis f. tortirostris Sowerby III, 1906 Cypraea cruenta Erronea chinensis (Gmelin, 1791) | |||||||
| Sources |
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] from synonym: Copley, H. (1945). List of cowries collected on the Kenyan coast by Colonel Maxwell and friends during July, 1944. JEANHS XVII (83&84): 160. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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): 60 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Ovatipsa chinensis amiges (Melvill & Standen, 1915) Subspecies Ovatipsa chinensis chinensis (Gmelin, 1791) Subspecies Ovatipsa chinensis somaliana Lorenz, 1999 Subspecies Ovatipsa chinensis variolaria (Lamarck, 1810) Subspecies Ovatipsa chinensis violacea (Rous, 1905) | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:530882 | |||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Ovatipsa chinensis (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=530882 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||
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