Talostolida pellucens

Talostolida pellucens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Talostolida
Species:	T. pellucens
Binomial name
Talostolida pellucens (Melvill, 1888)
Synonyms [1]
Blasicrura alisonaeBurgess, 1983 Blasicrura pellucens(Melvill, 1888) Blasicrura teres natalensisHeiman & Mienis, 2002 · Cypraea alisonaeBurgess, 1983 Cypraea tabescens var. pellucensMelvill, 1888 (basionym) Cypraea teres pellucens Melvill, 1888

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

There are two subspecies:

• Talostolida pellucens panamensis(Lorenz, 2002)
• Talostolida pellucens pellucens(Melvill, 1888)

Synonyms

• Talostolida pellucens jacksoniDaughenbaugh & Beals, 2013: synonym of Talostolida pellucens pellucens(Melvill, 1888)
• Talostolida pellucens sumeihoaeDaughenbaugh & Beals, 2013: synonym of Talostolida pellucens panamensis(Lorenz, 2002)

Distribution

This species can be found in the Mascarene Basin

References

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

• Melvill, J. C. (1888). A survey of the genus Cypraea (Linn.) its nomenclature, geographical distribution and distinctive affinites; with descriptions of two new species and several varieties. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. ser. 4, 1: 184-252