WoRMS taxon details
Cypraea rashleighana Melvill, 1888
AphiaID: 575035
AphiaID: 575035
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Cypraea (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (DNA sequences by C. Meyer (Cowrie Genetic database project, 2005) show it belongs in Ovatipsa) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Ovatipsa rashleighana (Melvill, 1888) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp. [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:575035 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Moretzsohn, F. (2013). Cypraea rashleighana Melvill, 1888. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575035 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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