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CAAB Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Gastropoda (class)  »  Littorinimorpha (order)  »  Ovulidae (family)

CAAB Code:	24 156030 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Cuspivolva helenae    (Cate, 1973)
CAAB category:	24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda
Family:	Ovulidae (allied cowries) - show full list
Common Name:	[an allied cowrie]
Recent Synonyms:	Primovula helenae
Organism Type:	an allied cowrie
Identifiers:	World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:430729    Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - View potential occurrences at OBIS or Map
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Regions:	Australia (inc. subantarctic territories)
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Record source:	Wilson, B., 1993, Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods Pt I. Odyssey Publishing, Leederville, W.A.
Scientific Name verified against:	Lorenz, F. Fehse, D., 2009. The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. ConchBooks, Heckenheim, Germany 651pp.