Tomopleura

Tomopleura
	A shell of Tomopleura bellardii
Scientific 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

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

^ ^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.

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[WoRMS-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^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] WoRMS : Tomopleura

[Gofas-4] 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]}

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