Biology:Talostolida pellucens

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Talostolida pellucens
Talostolida pellucens.jpg
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T. pellucens
Binomial name
Talostolida pellucens
(Melvill, 1888)
Synonyms[1]
  • Blasicrura alisonae Burgess, 1983
  • Blasicrura pellucens (Melvill, 1888)
  • Blasicrura teres natalensis Heiman & Mienis, 2002 ·
  • Cypraea alisonae Burgess, 1983
  • Cypraea tabescens var. pellucens Melvill, 1888 (basionym)
  • Cypraea teres pellucens Melvill, 1888

Talostolida pellucens is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]

There are two subspecies:

  • Talostolida pellucens panamensis (Lorenz, 2002)
  • Talostolida pellucens pellucens (Melvill, 1888)
Synonyms
  • Talostolida pellucens jacksoni Daughenbaugh & Beals, 2013: synonym of Talostolida pellucens pellucens (Melvill, 1888)
  • Talostolida pellucens sumeihoae Daughenbaugh & Beals, 2013: synonym of Talostolida pellucens panamensis (Lorenz, 2002)

Description

Distribution

This species can be found in the Mascarene Basin

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Talostolida alisonae (Melvill, 1888). WoRMS (2009). Talostolida pellucens (Melvill, 1888) . Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=580710 on 23 December 2012 .
  • Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
  • Lorenz F. (2002) New worldwide cowries. Descriptions of new taxa and revisions of selected groups of living Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur-Cismar 20: 1–292, pls 1-40.
  • Heiman E.L. & Mienis H.K. 2002. Blasicrura teres elatensis and Blasicrura teres natalensis: two new subspecies. Triton, 5: 11-17

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q6785298 entry