Talostolida
| Talostolida | |
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| A live individual of Talostolida teres | |
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| Five views of a shell of Talostolida teres | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Talostolida Iredale, 1931 |
| Type species | |
| Cypraea teres Gmelin, 1791 | |
Talostolida is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Talostolida include:[1]
- Talostolida latior (Melvill, 1888)
- Talostolida pellucens (Melvill, 1888)
- Talostolida subteres (Weinkauff, 1881)
- Talostolida teres (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Talostolida rashleighana (Melvill, 1888): synonym of Ovatipsa rashleighana (Melvill, 1888)
References
- 1 2 Moretzsohn, F.; Rosenberg, G. (2012). Talostolida. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=580707 on 2012-05-10
- Schilder, M. and Schilder, F. A. 1971. A Catalogue of Living and Fossil Cowries. Taxonomy and Bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea (Gastropoda Prosobranchia). Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Mémoires, Deuxième Série, Fasc. 85: 246 pp. page(s): 54
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