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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Cypraeidae
Lyncina carneola carneola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Type of listing: Name in current use
Synonymy
Cypraea carneola Linnaeus, 1758
Cypraea crassa Gmelin, 1791
Cypraea aureola Schröter, 1804
Cypraea marmorata Blainville, 1826
Cypraea sowerbyi Anton, 1839
Cypraea loebbeckeana Weinkauff, 1881
Cypraea carneola var. halmaja Melvill, 1888
Cypraea carneola var. rubiola Kenyon, 1902
Cypraea carneola var. adonis Rous, 1905
Cypraea carneola var. tuberculigera Sulliotti, 1924
Common Name
Purple Mouthed Cowry p.120, pl.359 Coleman, N. 1975.
Distribution
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: East Africa
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-China
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: NW coast
ABRS Regions: Australia: Western Australia
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Philippines
Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. p.88
Keywords
depth: intertidal
habitat: coral reef [ under coral in small groups
]
habitat: rock reef
substrate: rocks [
]
References
Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. p.68 Contains synonymy
Classification
Animalia
Mollusca
Conchifera
Visceroconcha
Gastropoda
Orthogastropoda
Caenogastropoda
Sorbeoconcha
Hypsogastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Cypraeoidea
Cypraeidae Gray, 1824
Cypraeinae Gray, 1824
Lyncina Troschel, 1863
Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lyncina carneola carneola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Metadata
Taxon name record (intBiotaID=77335) created by Shannon Reid on 2002-09-02. Record last updated by dsherman on 2004-02-23.