African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Talparia argus (Linnaeus, 1758)

AfReMaS name details

Talparia argus (Linnaeus, 1758)

AphiaID

216893 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216893)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Arestorides argus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Parent

Talparia Troschel, 1863

Original name

Cypraea argus Linnaeus, 1758

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Subspecies Talparia argus contrastriata (Perry, 1811) accepted as Arestorides argus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Cypraea argus Linnaeus, 1758) 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): 719 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Talparia argus (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) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216893 on 2026-09-03

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. Talparia argus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216893 on 2026-09-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-08-08 05:35:53Z

created

Onyango, Eunice

2010-10-02 15:31:39Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

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original description (of Cypraea argus Linnaeus, 1758) 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): 719 [details] Available for editors

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., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.140610 [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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Introduced: alien

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