| Cypraea talpa | |
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| A live Cypraea talpa in situ with its mantle almost fully extended, anterior end towards the right. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Cypraea |
| Species: | C. talpa |
| Binomial name | |
| Cypraea talpa Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Cypraea talpa, common name the mole cowry, is a species of tropical sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
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