Raphitoma pseudohystrix
Shell of Raphitoma pseudohystrix (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

Distribution

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

References

  1. ↑ Sykes E. R. (1906). "On the Mollusca procured during the "Porcupine" Expeditions 1869-1870. Supplemental notes, part 3". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7: 173-190.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Raphitoma pseudohystrix (Sykes, 1906). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  • 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
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