
Tomopleura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.
GENUS
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Tomopleura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.
==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.
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