WoRMS taxon details
Nucleolaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 570723
AphiaID: 570723
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Nucleolaria (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Nucleolaria Oyama, 1959 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Erosaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758) Staphylaea nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Synonym) | |||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Meyer C. 2003. Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda:
Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics. Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society, 79: 401-459. [details] additional source: Burgess, C.M. (1985) Cowries of the World. Gordon verhoef, Seacomber Publications, South Africa, Cape Town. XIV + 289 pp. page(s): 235 [details] additional source: Lorenz & Hubert (2000). A guide to worldwide cowries. ConchBooks 1-584 page(s): 214 [details] 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] | |||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Nucleolaria nucleus gemmosa (Perry, 1811) Subspecies Nucleolaria nucleus madagascariensis (Gmelin, 1791) Subspecies Nucleolaria nucleus nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Indo-Pacific [details] Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins) | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:570723 | |||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Moretzsohn, F. (2013). Nucleolaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=570723 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||
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