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Tomopleura

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Tomopleura
A shell of Tomopleura bellardii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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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

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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

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According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Tomopleura :[3]

Species brought into synonymy

References

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  1. ^ a b Tomopleura Casey, 1904. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 August 2011.
  2. ^ Chen-Kwoh Chang, Small Turrids of Taiwan, Chapter 10, p. 96, June 1, 2001[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ WoRMS : Tomopleura
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
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