Talostolida pellucens
| Talostolida pellucens | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Talostolida |
| Species: | T. pellucens |
| Binomial name | |
| Talostolida pellucens (Melvill, 1888) | |
| Synonyms | |
Talostolida pellucens is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
There are two subspecies:
- Talostolida pellucens panamensis (Lorenz, 2002)
- Talostolida pellucens pellucens (Melvill, 1888)
- Synonyms
- Talostolida pellucens jacksoni Daughenbaugh & Beals, 2013: synonym of Talostolida pellucens pellucens (Melvill, 1888)
- Talostolida pellucens sumeihoae Daughenbaugh & Beals, 2013: synonym of Talostolida pellucens panamensis (Lorenz, 2002)
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.
- Heiman E.L. & Mienis H.K. 2002. Blasicrura teres elatensis and Blasicrura teres natalensis: two new subspecies. Triton, 5: 11-17
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