Talparia talpa

Talparia talpa
A live Talparia talpa in situ with its mantle almost fully extended, anterior end towards the right
Five views of a shell of Talaria talpa
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Talparia
Species:
T. talpa
Binomial name
Talparia talpa
Distribution map of Talparia talpa
Synonyms
  • Cypraea talpa Linnaeus, 1758(basionym)
  • Cypraea talpa imperialis (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
  • Cypraea talpa var. saturata Duatzenberg, 1903
  • Talparia talpa imperialis (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
  • Talparia talpa var. lewallorum Lorenz, 2015 (unavailable name: infrasubspecific rank)

Talparia talpa, common name the mole cowry or chocolate banded cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

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