• Talparia Troschel, F.H. 1856-1893. Das Gebiss der Schnecken, zur Begründung einer Natürlichen Classification. [by J. Thiele, written after Troschel's death]. [pLTS 1-6 (1856-1879); PLTS 7 & 8 (1891-1893). Berlin : Nicoläische Verlagsbuchhandlung 2 vols. pls 1-6 (1856-1879); pls 7 & 8 (1891-1893). [1(5): 204, 206.].

  Type species:

   Cypraea talpa Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Schilder, F.A. 1926. Additions and corrections to Vredenburg's classification of the Cypraeidae. Records of the Geological Survey of India 58(4): 358-379 [375] (Schilder, 1926, Records of the Geological Survey of India, 58(4): 375).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cambodia, Central and East Indian Ocean, Philippines, Red Sea, Tropical Indo-West Pacific, East Africa.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [78]

History of changes

• Cypraea talpa Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10 Edn., 824 pp. [720].
• Cypraea saturata Dautzenberg, P. 1902. Revision de Cyraeidae de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 50(3): 291-384 [302].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, New Caledonia.
• Talparia imperialis Schilder, F.A. & Schilder, M. 1939. Prodrome of a monograph on living Cypraeidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 23: 119-231 [180].

Generic Combinations

• Talparia talpa (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Meyer, C.P. 2003. Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 79: 401-459 [455]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Under coral slabs

General References

Burgess, C.M. 1985. Cowries of the World. Cape Town : Seacomber Publications 289 pp. [90] (as Cypraea talpa)

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [78]

Meyer, C. 2005. Talparia talpa Linnaeus, 1758. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/talpa.htm

Meyer, C.P. 2003. Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 79: 401-459 (included in analysis)

Meyer, C.P. 2004. Toward comprehensiveness: increased molecular sampling within Cypraeidae and its phylogenetic implications. Malacologia 46(1): 127-156 (included in analysis)

Subba Rao, N.V. 2003. Indian Seashells (Part 1). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper (192): 1-416 [174]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [191, pl. 31, figs 3 a,b]

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [128, pl. 21, fig. 4] (Mole Or Chocolate-banded Cowry)

History of changes