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Raphitoma

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Raphitoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. OrderNeogastropoda
  5. FamilyRaphitomidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded4,954

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
878
With media
112
Family
Raphitomidae
Collections
PRI, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, LACM, NHMUK
Recorded in
United States, France, Malta, United Kingdom

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Distribution
  • Taxonomy history
  • Description
  • Species
  • Synonyms
  • References
  • External links

Raphitoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.

The type species Pleurotoma hystrix Cristofori and Jan, 1832 is a nomen nudum. It has been validated by Bellardi, 1847 as “Pleurotoma histrix Jan.”

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Raphitoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.