Raphitoma bicolor

Raphitoma bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Raphitoma
Species:	R. bicolor
Binomial name
Raphitoma bicolor (Risso, 1826)
Synonyms[1]
Clathurella bicolor Dautzenberg, 1883 Philbertia bicolor Monterosato, 1884 Pleurotoma bicolor Risso, 1826(original combination) Pleurotoma cornea Blainville, 1829 Raphitoma (Cyrtoides) bicolor Nordsieck, 1968

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

Description[]

The length varies between 6 mm and 15 mm.

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Distribution[]

The entire Mediterranean Sea; NE Atlantic, from Wales to Canary Islands.

References[]

• Arnaud, P. M., 1978 Révision des taxa malacologiques méditerrannéens introduits par Antoine Risso Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice, "1977" 5 101-150
• Giannuzzi-Savelli R., Pusateri F. & Bartolini S., 2018. A revision of the Mediterranean Raphitomidae (Gastropoda: Conoidea) 5: loss of planktotrophy and pairs of species, with the description of four new species. Bollettino Malacologico 54, Suppl. 11: 1-77

External links[]

• Risso, A., 1826 - Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes. Mollusques, vol. 4, p. 1-439, 12 pls
• Lectotype at MNHN, Paris
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.

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