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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Cypraeoidea: Cypraeidae

Luria lurida lurida (Linnaeus, 1758)


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Cypraea lurida Linnaeus, 1758, p. 720, [Gualtieri, pl. 13, F. I]
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: M[are] Mediterraneo
Comments: Restricted to the Mediterranean. The subspecies Luria lurida minima occurs in West Africa and Luria lurida oceanica on Ascension Island and St. Helena.


Partial List of References

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae Systema Naturae, 10th ed., vol. 1 824 pp. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae [Stockholm, Sweden].

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