African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Cypraea talpa Linnaeus, 1758

AfReMaS name details

Cypraea talpa Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID

216751 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216751)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (superseded combination)

Accepted name

Talparia talpa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Talparia Troschel, 1863

Parent

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Cypraea talpa Linnaeus, 1758

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Subspecies Cypraea talpa imperialis (F. A. Schilder & M. Schilder, 1938) accepted as Talparia talpa talpa (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 720 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cypraea talpa Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216751 on 2026-09-13

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Cypraea talpa Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216751 on 2026-09-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-07-18 15:57:33Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-10-02 15:31:39Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2023-11-17 19:02:19Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 720 [details] Available for editors

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 Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
page(s): 79, fig. 276 [details]

additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [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]

additional source Sykes, E. R. (1901). Malacological Notes. 11. Note on Cypraea talpa and C. exusta. The Journal of Malacology. 8(4): 109, pl. 10, figs. 4, 6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28220777 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (92 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection