Talopena

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Talopena
Apical view of a shell of Talopena gloriola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae[citation needed]
Subfamily: Umboniinae
Genus: Talopena
Iredale, 1918[1]
Species

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Talopena is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top shells. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Talopena include:

  • Talopena carmesina (Webster, 1908)
  • Talopena discerna Iredale, 1937
  • Talopena gloriola Iredale, 1929
  • Talopena incerta (Iredale, 1912)
  • Talopena vernicosa (Gould, 1861)

References

  1. Iredale T. (1918). Proc. malac. Soc. London 13: 28, 30.
  2. Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database: Talopena
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Cotton, B.C., 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Govt. Printer, Adelaide
  • Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F., 1962 [31/Dec/1962]. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0
  • Wilson, B., 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA


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