Tomopleura

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Tomopleura

A shell of Tomopleura bellardii
Scientific classification
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]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Distribution
* 3 Species
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Description

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

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

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

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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[no|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
3. ↑ WoRMS : Tomopleura
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 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). http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/18136_z09n1a1.pdf. Retrieved 2010-08-11.
5. ↑ Chen-Kwoh Chang, Small Turrids of Taiwan Chapter 10, p. 98, June 1, 2001[no|permanent dead link|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

* 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. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf.

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