Tomopleura
| Tomopleura | |
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| A shell of Tomopleura bellardii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Tomopleura Casey, 1904 |
| Type species | |
| Pleurotoma nivea, Philippi, 1851 | |
Tomopleura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The fusiform shell with a high spire and a truncate base 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 strong spiral lirae and 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.[2]
Distribution
[edit]Species in this marine genus occur in Central and East Indian Ocean, off East Africa, India (E), Indo-China, Japan, Mozambique, Philippines, the Red Sea, South Africa and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).
Species
[edit]According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Tomopleura :[3]
- Tomopleura bellardii (Jousseaume, 1883)
- Tomopleura carrota (Laseron, 1954)
- Tomopleura cicatrigula (Hedley, 1922)
- † Tomopleura clifdenica Powell, 1942
- Tomopleura coffea (Thiele, 1925)
- † Tomopleura crassispiralis (Marwick, 1929)
- Tomopleura dilecta (Hedley, 1903)
- † Tomopleura excavata (Hutton, 1877)
- † Tomopleura finlayi Powell, 1942
- † Tomopleura furcata Harzhauser, Raven & Landau, 2018
- Tomopleura fuscocincta Gofas & Rolán, 2009 [4]
- Tomopleura nivea (Philippi, 1851)
- Tomopleura oscitans Kilburn, 1986
- Tomopleura pouloensis Jousseaume, 1883 [5]
- Tomopleura reciproca (Gould, 1860)
- Tomopleura regina (Thiele, 1925)
- Tomopleura retusispirata (Smith E. A., 1877)
- Tomopleura spiralissima Gofas & Rolán, 2009 - synonyms = Asthenotoma spiralis (Smith, 1872), Pleurotoma spiralis, Smith, 1872 [4]
- † Tomopleura striata (P. Marshall, 1917)
- Tomopleura subtilinea (Hedley, 1918)
- Tomopleura thisbe (Melvill, 1906)
- Tomopleura thola (Laseron, 1954)
- Tomopleura tricincta Gofas & Rolán, 2009 [4]
- Tomopleura vertebrata (Smith E. A., 1875)
- † Tomopleura waiauensis Powell, 1942
- Species brought into synonymy
- Tomopleura albula (Hutton, 1873): synonym of Maoritomella albula (Hutton, 1873)
- Tomopleura fultoni (G.B. Sowerby III, 1888): synonym of Pulsarella fultoni (G.B. Sowerby III, 1888)
- 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
- Tomopleura reevii (Adams C. B., 1950): synonym of Drilliola reevii (C. B. Adams, 1850)
- † Tomopleura transenna (Suter, 1917): synonym of † Cryptomella transenna (Suter, 1917)
References
[edit]- ^ a b 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[permanent dead link]
- ^ WoRMS : Tomopleura
- ^ a b c 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)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 31 (1): 5–16. doi:10.5252/z2009n1a1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-05. Retrieved 2010-08-11.
- ^ Chen-Kwoh Chang, Small Turrids of Taiwan Chapter 10, p. 98, June 1, 2001[permanent dead link]
- Kilburn R.N. (1986). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae. Annals of the Natal Museum. 27: 633-720.
External links
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- Casey T.L. (1904) Notes on the Pleurotomidae with description of some new genera and species. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 14, 123–170
- Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.