Talostolida pellucens
| Talostolida pellucens | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Talostolida |
| Species: | T. pellucens |
| Binomial name | |
| Talostolida pellucens (Melvill, 1888) | |
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Talostolida pellucens is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
There are two subspecies:
- Talostolida pellucens panamensis (Lorenz, 2002) (species inquirenda)
- Talostolida pellucens pellucens (Melvill, 1888)
Distribution
This species can be found in the Mascarene Basin
References
- 1 2 Talostolida alisonae (Melvill, 1888) . WoRMS (2009). Talostolida pellucens (Melvill, 1888) . Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=580710 on 23 December 2012.
- Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
- 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.
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