Talostolida pellucens

Talostolida pellucens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Talostolida
Species:	T. pellucens
Binomial name
	Talostolida pellucens; (Melvill, 1888)
Synonyms
	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 mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

There are two subspecies:

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

This species can be found in the Mascarene Basin

^ ^a ^b 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

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