Drupa ricinus

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Drupa (Drupa) ricinus
Drupa (Drupa) ricinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Rapaninae
Genus: Drupa
Subgenus: Drupa
Species: D. ricinus
Binomial name
Drupa (Drupa) ricinus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drupa (Drupa) ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Drupa ricina (Linnaeus)
  • Drupa rubuscaesius Röding, 1798
  • Drupa tribulus Röding, 1798
  • Murex hystrix Linnaeus, 1758
  • Murex ricinus Linnaeus, 1758
  • Purpura hystrix Linnaeus
  • Ricinula arachnoides Lamarck, 1816
  • Ricinula hystrix (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Ricinula ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Sistrum album Montfort, 1810
  • Sistrum ricinus (L.)

Drupa (Drupa) ricinus, common name : prickly spotted drupe, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Subspecies

  • Drupa (Drupa) ricinus lischkei (Hidalgo, 1904) (synonyms: Drupa (Drupa) ricinus lischkei (Hidalgo, 1904); Drupa hadari Emerson & Cernohorsky, 1973; Ricinula lischkei Hidalgo, 1904 (basionym) )
  • Drupa (Drupa) ricinus ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym: Drupa (Drupa) ricinus ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) )
  • Drupa ricinus albolabris (Blainville, 1832)
  • Drupa ricinus arachnoidea (Lamarck, 1810)

Description

Five views of a shell of Drupa ricinus

The shell size varies between 19 mm and 32 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific and along the Galápagos Islands.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Drupa (Drupa) ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 January 2011.
  • Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 68: 21-74
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
  • MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp
  • Houart R., Kilburn R.N. & Marais A.P. (2010) Muricidae. Pp. 176-270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp.
  • Claremont M., Reid D.G. & Williams S.T. (2012) Speciation and dietary specialization in Drupa, a genus of predatory marine snails (Gastropoda: Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta 41: 137-149

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