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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMonetaria caputserpentis caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 710835

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGastropoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaenogastropoda (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLittorinimorpha (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraeidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMonetaria (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMonetaria caputserpentis (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Subspecies
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMonetaria caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea caputserpentis caputserpentis Linnaeus, 1758
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErosaria caputserpentis caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Source  original description (of Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCypraea caputserpentis caputserpentis Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorsnake's head cowry [from synonym]  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEast Africa [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Link Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:710835
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2012-11-19 21:42:22Z  created  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2014). Monetaria caputserpentis caputserpentis. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=710835 on 2014-07-22
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