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Umbilia hesitata (Iredale, 1916) 
AphiaID: 567271

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Umbilia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Umbilia Jousseaume, 1884
Synonymised
taxa		  Cypraea hesitata Iredale, 1916 (original combination)
 Cypraea umbilicata G. B. Sowerby I, 1825 (invalid: junior homonym of Cypraea umbilicata Lightfoot, 1786 and C. umbilicata Dillwyn, 1823; Cypraea hesitata is a replacement name)
Sources  basis of record (from synonym): Wilson B. & Clarkson P. (2004) Australia's spectacular cowries. A review and field study of two endemic genera: Zoila and Umbilia. Odyssey Publishing, El Cajon, California. 396 pp. [details] [view taxon]

identification resource: Lorenz F. & Massiglia D. (2005) Umbilia oriettae nov. sp. - An overlooked species from Eastern Australia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Visaya 1(5): 37-44. [November 2005] [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subspecies Umbilia hesitata hesitata (Iredale, 1916)

Subspecies Umbilia hesitata beddomei (Schilder, 1930) (species inquirenda)

Forma Umbilia hesitata f. nordica Raybaudi, 1986 accepted as Umbilia oriettae Lorenz & Massiglia, 2005
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Images 
Umbilia hesitata
Umbilia hesitata
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: checked by Moretzsohn, Fabio on 2013-02-24 05:07:33

Umbilia hesitata
Umbilia hesitata
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: checked by Moretzsohn, Fabio on 2013-02-24 05:07:49
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:567271
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2011-04-03 06:48:38Z  created  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Umbilia hesitata (Iredale, 1916). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567271 on 2013-06-19
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