Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Talostolida teres teres (Gmelin, 1791)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Littorinimorpha

Family
Cypraeidae

Genus
Talostolida

Species
teres

Subspecies
teres

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Blasicrura (Talostolida) teres (Gmelin, 1791), Blasicrura teres teres (Gmelin, 1791), Cypraea teres teres Gmelin, 1791, Talostolida subteres vava Steadman & Cotton, 1943 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

References

  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Talostolida teres teres", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24829. Accessed 5 November 2026.