Chinese Register of Marine Species - Staphylaea nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Chinese
Register of
Marine Species
(ChaRMS)

MolluscaBase name details

Staphylaea nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)

AphiaID

216891 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216891)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (Synonym)

Accepted name

Nucleolaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Parent

Staphylaea Jousseaume, 1884

Original name

Cypraea nucleus Linnaeus, 1758

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Subspecies Staphylaea nucleus madagascariensis (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Nucleolaria nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Cypraea nucleus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
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Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Staphylaea nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216891 on 2025-05-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-08-08 05:35:53Z

created

Onyango, Eunice

2010-10-02 22:08:23Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2011-04-28 21:28:30Z

changed

Moretzsohn, Fabio

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Documented distribution (4)

original description (of Cypraea nucleus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 724 [details] Available for editors

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basis of record 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]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore shells of southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
page(s): 57 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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