Tomopleura
| Tomopleura | |
|---|---|
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| A shell of Tomopleura reevii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae [1] |
| Genus: | Tomopleura Casey, 1904 |
| Type species | |
| Pleurotoma nivea, Philippi, 1851 | |
Tomopleura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.[2]
Description
The fusiform shell is light-built with a deep, reverse "U-shaped" anal sinus on the shoulder slope and a tall, straight-sided conical spire. The apex is truncate. The sculpture of the shell shows spiral keels with fine axial threads in the interstices. There is a spiral ridge at the lower columella. The radula is of the toxoglossan type.[3]
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Tomopleura :[4]
- Tomopleura bellardii (Jousseaume, 1883)
- Tomopleura carrota (Laseron, 1954)
- Tomopleura cicatrigula (Hedley, 1922)
- Tomopleura coffea (Thiele, 1925)
- Tomopleura dilecta (Hedley, 1903)
- Tomopleura fuscocincta Gofas & Rolán, 2009 [5]
- Tomopleura nivea (Philippi, 1851)
- Tomopleura oscitans Kilburn, 1986
- Tomopleura pouloensis Jousseaume, 1883 [6]
- Tomopleura reciproca (Gould, 1860)
- Tomopleura reevii (Adams C. B., 1950)
- Tomopleura regina (Thiele, 1925)
- Tomopleura retusispirata (Smith E. A., 1877)
- Tomopleura spiralissima Gofas & Rolán, 2009 - synonyms = Asthenotoma spiralis (Smith, 1872), Pleurotoma spiralis, Smith, 1872 [5]
- Tomopleura subtilinea (Hedley, 1918)
- Tomopleura thola (Laseron, 1954)
- Tomopleura tricincta Gofas & Rolán, 2009 [5]
- Tomopleura vertebrata (Smith E. A., 1875)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Tomopleura albula (Hutton, 1873): synonym of Maoritomella albula (Hutton, 1873)
- Tomopleura ischna (Watson, 1881): synonym of Maoritomella ischna (Watson, 1881)
- Tomopleura multiplex (Webster, 1906): synonym of Maoritomella multiplex (Webster, 1881)
- Tomopleura orientalis (Dell, 1956): synonym of Maoritomella orientalis Dell, 1956
References
- ↑ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
- ↑ Tomopleura Casey, 1904 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 August 2011.
- ↑ Chen-Kwoh Chang, Small Turrids of Taiwan, Chapter 10, p. 96, June 1, 2001
- ↑ WoRMS : Tomopleura
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gofas, Serge; Rolan Emilio (2009). "A systematic review of "Asthenotoma spiralis (Smith, 1872)" in West Africa, with description of two new species (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conoidea)". Zoosystema 31 (1). Retrieved 2010-08-11.
- ↑ Chen-Kwoh Chang, Small Turrids of Taiwan Chapter 10, p. 98, June 1, 2001
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