Trona (gastropod)

Genus of gastropods

Trona

Trona leporina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:  | Cypraeoidea
Family:  | Cypraeidae
Genus:  | Trona
Jousseaume, 1884
Type species
Cypraea stercoraria Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms

* † Basterotia Jousseaume, 1884 (invalid: junior homonym of...)
* † Cypraea (Basterotia) Bayle, 1884 †
* Peribolus Blainville, 1824 (Invalid: nomen oblitum)

Trona is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Luriinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]

## Species

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Species within the genus Trona include:

* † Trona leporina (Lamarck, 1810)
* † Trona rostrata (Grateloup, 1845)
* Trona stercoraria (Linnaeus, 1758) [2]

## Distribution

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This genus is found in the Atlantic Ocean off of Cape Verde, Senegal and Angola.

## References

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1. ^ Trona Jousseame, 1884. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 January 2019.
2. ^ Trona stercoraria. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.

* Burgess C.M. (1985). Cowries of the world. Cape Town: Gordon Verhoef, Seacomber Publications. xiv + 289 pp.
* Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
* Lorenz F. & Hubert A. (2000) A guide to worldwide cowries. Edition 2. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 584 pp.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Trona (Cypraeidae).

* Jousseaume, F. (1884). Division des Cypraeidae. Le Naturaliste. 6(52): 414-415
* Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1824). Mollusques, Mollusca (Malacoz.), pp. 1-392. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 32. Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris, & Le Normant, Paris

Taxon identifiers

Trona|

* Wikidata: Q7845426
* BOLD: 6243
* CoL: 7PK46
* GBIF: 4360659
* iNaturalist: 502683
* IRMNG: 1340378
* NCBI: 218007
* Paleobiology Database: 10619
* WoRMS: 224864

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