African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Cypraea nivosa Broderip, 1827

WoRMS name details

Cypraea nivosa Broderip, 1827

AphiaID

216803 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216803)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted Name

Callistocypraea nivosa (Broderip, 1827)

Rank

Species

Parent

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Orig. name

Cypraea nivosa Broderip, 1827

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Broderip, W. J. (1827). Description of some new and rare shells. <em>The Zoological Journal.</em> 3: 81-85., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485607
page(s): 84 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Cypraea nivosa Broderip, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216803 on 2024-05-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-06-07 07:51:36Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-10-06 21:11:21Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2011-08-02 04:36:29Z

changed

Moretzsohn, Fabio

2018-04-20 05:31:26Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2023-04-23 09:42:55Z

changed

Herbert, David

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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original description Broderip, W. J. (1827). Description of some new and rare shells. <em>The Zoological Journal.</em> 3: 81-85., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485607
page(s): 84 [details]

basis of record Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection