WoRMS taxon details
Talparia talpa (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 216894
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] | ||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | 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 | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216894 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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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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