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Talparia talpa (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 216894

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family) > Talparia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Talparia Troschel, 1861
Synonymised
taxa
  Cypraea talpa Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
Cypraea talpa imperialis (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
Talparia talpa imperialis (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
Sources  basis of record: Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129-144, 17 pls. [details]

from synonym: Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]


Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English mole cowry (from synonym)  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Subspecies Talparia talpa imperialis (Schilder & Schilder, 1938) accepted as Talparia talpa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine
Distribution Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
East Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eritrea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Images 
Cypraea talpa (Talparia talpa)
Cypraea talpa (Talparia talpa)
added on 2011-04-13
qualitystatus: checked by Moretzsohn, Fabio on 2013-05-17 07:33:17

Talparia talpa
Talparia talpa
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: checked by Moretzsohn, Fabio on 2013-05-17 07:32:29
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216894
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-08-08 05:35:53Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2010-10-02 15:31:39Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Talparia talpa (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216894 on 2013-05-22
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