Drupa ricinus

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, 1758) Drupa rubuscaesius Röding, 1798 Drupa tribulus Röding, 1798 Murex hystrix Linnaeus, 1758 Murex ricinus Linnaeus, 1758 Purpura hystrix Linnaeus, 1758 Ricinula arachnoides Lamarck, 1816 Ricinula hystrix (Linnaeus, 1758) Ricinula ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) Sistrum album Montfort, 1810 Sistrum ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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

• 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

External links

• Gastropods.com : Drupa (Drupa) ricinus; accessed : 18 November 2010

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