Talostolida

Talostolida
A live individual of Talostolida teres
Five views of a shell of Talostolida teres
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Subfamily:	Erroneinae
Tribe:	Bistolidini
Genus:	Talostolida Iredale, 1931
Type species
Cypraea teres Gmelin, 1791

Talostolida is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Erroneinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Talostolida include: ^[1]

• Talostolida latior (Melvill, 1888)
• Talostolida pellucens (Melvill, 1888)
• Talostolida subteres (Weinkauff, 1881)
• Talostolida teres (Gmelin, 1791)
• Talostolida violacincta (Lorenz, 2002)

Species brought into synonymy

• Talostolida natalensis(Heiman & Mienis, 2002): synonym of Talostolida pellucens pellucens(Melvill, 1888)
• Talostolida pseudoteresLorenz & Barbier, 1992 synonym of Ovatipsa pseudoteres (Lorenz & Barbier, 1992)
• Talostolida rashleighana(Melvill, 1888): synonym of Ovatipsa rashleighana (Melvill, 1888)

References

1. Moretzsohn, F.; Rosenberg, G. (2012). Talostolida. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=580707 on 2012-05-10

• Schilder, M. and Schilder, F. A. 1971. A Catalogue of Living and Fossil Cowries. Taxonomy and Bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea (Gastropoda Prosobranchia). Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Mémoires, Deuxième Série, Fasc. 85: 246 pp. page(s): 54
• Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 644 pp

External links

• Iredale, T. (1931). Australian molluscan notes. Nº I. Records of the Australian Museum. 18(4): 201-235 Archived 2012-11-04 at the Wayback Machine