WoRMS taxon details
Cypraea talpa Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 216751
AphiaID: 216751
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Cypraea (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (original combination) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Talparia talpa (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Talparia Troschel, 1861 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp. page(s): 64 [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Cypraea talpa imperialis (Schilder & Schilder, 1938) accepted as Talparia talpa (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Description: as C. carneola, but with dark brown base and rim. Regional names: Port. Cipreia encarnada. (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216751 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cypraea talpa Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216751 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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