Raphitoma pupoides

Raphitoma pupoides
	Shell of Raphitoma pupoides (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Raphitoma
Species:	R. pupoides
Binomial name
	Raphitoma pupoides; (Monterosato, 1884)
Synonyms
	Cordiera pupoides Monterosato, 1884; Cyrtoides rudis Scacchi, 1836; Pleurotoma reticulata var. brevis Requien, 1848; Pleurotoma rudis Scacchi, 1836 (Invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma rudis G.B. Sowerby I, 1834; Cordieria pupoides and Raphitoma neapolitana are replacement names); Raphitoma (Cyrtoides) rudis (Scacchi, 1836); Raphitoma (Cyrtoides) rudis cylindracea [sic] (misspelling and misidentification of Clathurella cylindrica Locard & Caziot, 1900); Raphitoma brevis Réquien, 1848; Raphitoma neapolitana F. Nordsieck, 1977;

Raphitoma pupoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 17 mm.

(Original description) It stands out at a glance for its pupoid shape and for its very short siphonal canal, a strongly denticled aperture, oblique and obsolete cross-linking, rapid subtraction, tumid evolutions. The conical apex is composed of many rounded corners, the last of which at angled periphery.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Central Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands.

References

^ ^a ^b Raphitoma pupoides (Monterosato, 1884). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
^ Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Palermo, Virzi, 152 pp

Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Francesco Pusateri, Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Riccardo Giannuzzi: A revision of the Mediterranean Raphitomidae, 3: on the Raphitoma pupoides (Monterosato, 1884) complex, with the description of a new species (Mollusca Gastropoda); Biodiversity Journal, 2016, 7 (1): 103–115

External links

Scacchi, A. (1836). Catalogus Conchyliorum regni Neapolitani. Neapoli [Naples, Typis Filiatre-Sebetii 18 p., 1 pl]
Gastropods.com: Raphitoma (pupoides
Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.

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[WoRMS-1] Raphitoma pupoides (Monterosato, 1884). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.

[2] Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Palermo, Virzi, 152 pp

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