Raphitoma pseudohystrix

Raphitoma pseudohystrix
Shell of Raphitoma pseudohystrix (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Raphitoma
Species:	R. pseudohystrix
Binomial name
Raphitoma pseudohystrix (Sykes, 1906)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Defrancia hystrix Jeffreys, 1867 Clathurella pseudohystrix Sykes, 1906 Raphitoma divae Carrozza, 1984

Raphitoma pseudohystrix is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.^[2]

Description[]

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Distribution[]

• European waters^[2]
• Grecian Exclusive Economic Zone^[2]
• Western, Central Mediterranean and Adriatic. The records from Greece seem due to a misidentification.

References[]

• 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
• Ceulemans L., Van Dingenen F. & Landau B.M. (2018). The lower Pliocene gastropods of Le Pigeon Blanc (Loire- Atlantique, northwest France). Part 5 – Neogastropoda (Conoidea) and Heterobranchia (fine). Cainozoic Research. 18(2): 89-176

External links[]

• Sykes E. R. 1906. On the Mollusca procured during the "Porcupine" Expeditions 1869-1870. Supplemental notes, part III. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7: 173-190, pl. 16
• Carrozza F. (1984). Raphitoma divae n. sp. Bollettino Malacologico 20(5-8): 151-154
• MNHN. Paris: holotype
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
• Gastropods.com: Raphitoma (Raphitoma) pseudohystrix
• Natural History Museum, Rotterdam: Raphitoma pseudohystrix

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