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 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Subfamily: | Erroneinae |
| Tribe: | Bistolidini |
| Genus: | Talostolida Iredale, 1931 |
| Type species | |
| Cypraea teres Gmelin, 1791
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Talostolida is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Erroneinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Talostolida include:[1]
- Talostolida latior (Melvill, 1888)
- Talostolida pellucens (Melvill, 1888)
- Talostolida subteres (Weinkauff, 1881)
- Talostolida teres (Gmelin, 1791)
- Talostolida violacincta (Lorenz, 2002)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Talostolida natalensis (Heiman & Mienis, 2002): synonym of Talostolida pellucens pellucens (Melvill, 1888)
- Talostolida pseudoteres Lorenz & Barbier, 1992 synonym of Ovatipsa pseudoteres (Lorenz & Barbier, 1992)
- Talostolida rashleighana (Melvill, 1888): synonym of Ovatipsa rashleighana (Melvill, 1888)
References
[edit]- ^ a b 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
- Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 644 pp
External links
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