WoRMS taxon details
Lyncina vitellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 530884
AphiaID: 530884
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Lyncina (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Lyncina Troschel, 1861 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cypraea vitellus Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Cypraea vitellus dama Perry, 1811 | |||||||
| 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): 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): 62 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] East 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 (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:530884 | |||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Lyncina vitellus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=530884 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||
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