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Tomopleura
Sign in to saveTomopleura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.
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Vinony's link graph records 32 inbound references to Tomopleura, and connects out to Mollusca, Japan and South Africa.
It is catalogued under the topic Tomopleura.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyBorsoniidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 308
- With media
- 48
- Family
- Borsoniidae
- Collections
- USNM, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Solomon Islands, Nouvelle-Caledonie, Somalia, Iles Fidji, Mozambique
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- Commons category
- Tomopleura
- topic's main category
- Category:Tomopleura
- taxon name
- Tomopleura
- taxon rank
- genus
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Distribution
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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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