Tomopleura reevii

Tomopleura reevii
Apertural view of a shell of Tomopleura reevii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Tomopleura
Species: T. reevii
Binomial name
Tomopleura reevii
(C. B. Adams, 1850)
Synonyms
  • Pleurotoma reevii C. B. Adams, 1850 (original combination)
  • Pleurotoma violacea Hinds, 1843 (junior homonym of Pleurotoma violacea Mighels& Adams, 1842; Pleurotoma reevii is a replacement name)
  • Turris violacea

Tomopleura reevii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea.

References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2014). Tomopleura reevii (C. B. Adams, 1850). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=435065 on 2015-01-22

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