World Register of Deep-Sea species - Mauritia scurra (Gmelin, 1791)

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Mauritia scurra (Gmelin, 1791)

AphiaID

216867 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216867)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Mauritia Troschel, 1863

Original name

Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (original combination)

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Subspecies Mauritia scurra occidua C. P. Meyer & Lorenz, 2017
Subspecies Mauritia scurra scurra (Gmelin, 1791)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3409 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mauritia scurra (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216867 on 2025-05-10

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Mauritia scurra (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216867 on 2025-05-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-08-08 05:35:53Z

created

Onyango, Eunice

2010-10-08 20:18:53Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

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original description (of Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3409 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System. [details]

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 Schilder F.A. & Schilder M. (1938-1939). Prodrome of a monograph on living Cypraeidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 23(3): 109-180 [15 November 1938]; 23(4): 181-252 [15 March 1939].
page(s): 182 [details] Available for editors

additional source Lorenz F. (2002) New worldwide cowries. Descriptions of new taxa and revisions of selected groups of living Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur-Cismar 20: 1-292, pls 1-40. [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

additional source Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 644 pp.
page(s): 303. [details]

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]