{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Speciesbox | image = Bothropoma pilula 01.jpg | image_caption = A shell of ''Neocollonia pilula'' | taxon = Neocollonia pilula | authority = (Dunker, 1860) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = * ''Bothropoma'' cf. ''pilula'' <small>Bosch ''et al.'', 1995</small> * ''Bothropoma isseli'' <small>Thiele, 1924</small> <ref name="RM">Rusmore-Villaume, m.l. (2008): ''Seashells of the Egyptian Red Sea: The illustrated Handbook.'' – XI + 307 pp., American Univ. in Cairo Press.</ref> * ''Bothropoma pilula'' <small>(Dunker, 1860)</small> superseded combination * ''Bothropoma pilulum'' <small>(Dunker, 1860)</small> (wrong spelling of species name; pilula is a noun in apposition) * ''Collonia japonica'' <small>(A. Adams, 1861)</small> * ''Collonia pilula'' <small>(Dunker, 1860)</small> * ''Complicatacollonista isseli'' <small>(Thiele, 1924)</small> superseded combination * ''Cynisca japonica'' <small>A. Adams, 1861</small> (junior synonym) * ''Leptothyra inepta'' <small>(Gould, 1861)</small> * ''Leptothyra pilula'' <small>R. W. Dunker, 1860</small> * ''Liotia pilula'' <small>Dunker, 1860</small> (original combination) * ''Monilea inepta'' <small>Gould, 1861</small> * ''Monilea rotundata'' <small>G. B. Sowerby III, 1894</small> (junior synonym) * ''Neocollonia diversicolor'' <small>Poppe, Tagaro & S.-I Huang, 2023</small> junior subjective synonym * ''Neocollonia inepta'' <small>(A. Gould, 1861)</small> junior subjective synonym * ''Neocollonia isseli'' <small>(Thiele, 1924)</small> junior subjective synonym * ''Neocollonia kantori'' <small>Poppe, Tagaro & S.-I Huang, 2023</small> junior subjective synonym * ''Neocollonia pilula'' <small>(Dunker, 1860)</small> * ''Neocollonia pilula pilula'' <small>(Dunker, 1860)</small> * ''Neocollonia splendida'' <small>Poppe, Tagaro & S.-I Huang, 2023</small> · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym }}
'''''Neocollonia pilula''''' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|345585|''Neocollonia pilula'' (Dunker, 1860)||19 April 2010}}</ref>
;Subspecies: * ''Neocollonia pilula rosa'' <small>(Pilsbry, 1904)</small> : synonym of ''Planacollonista rosa'' <small>(Pilsbry, 1904)</small> (superseded combination)
==Description== The shell grows to a size of 5 mm.
(Description of ''Monilea inepta'', originally in Latin) The small, solid, ovate-conical shell is encircled by articulated threads, one of which is more prominent, in rosy or clay-colored hues with paler intervals. The sutural region is tessellated, with 4 convex whorls and a blunt apex. The base is convex, with a moderate, plicate umbilicus encircled by a whitish band. The aperture is circular with a thick, simple lip, and the columella is smooth.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gould |first1=A.A. |title=Description of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. |journal=Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History |date=1861 |volume=7 |issue=18 |page=16 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9492428}} {{source-attribution}}</ref>
==Distribution== This marine species occurs off South Japan, China; off Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. It has also been recorded in the Red Sea and off Madagascar.<ref name="RM" />
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite journal |last1=Thiele |first1=J. |title=Revision des Systems der Trochacea |journal=Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin |date=1924 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=63, 71}} * Dudgeon, D.; Morton, B. (1982). The coral associated Mollusca of Tolo Harbour and Channel, Hong Kong. In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the first international marine biological workshop: The marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. 2: 627–650. * Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp * Zuschin, M., Janssen, R. & Baal, C. (2009). Gastropods and their habitats from the northern Red Sea (Egypt: Safaga). Part 1: Patellogastropoda, Vetigastropoda and Cycloneritimorpha. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 111[A]: 73–158. page(s): 106 * {{cite book |last1=Poppe, G.T., Tagaro, S.P. & Huang, S.-I. |title=The recent Colloniidae with a study of the Colloniidae collected by various expeditions of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris |date=2023 |publisher=Conchbooks |location=Harxsheim |pages=1–372}}
==External links== * {{cite journal |last1=Dunker |first1=W. |title=Neue japanische Mollusken. |journal=Malakozoologische Blätter |date=1860 |volume=6 |page=226 |url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16014319 |access-date=14 September 2024}} * {{cite journal |last1=Sowerby |first1=G.B. III |title=Descriptions of new species of marine shells from the neighbourhood of Hong-Kong |journal=Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London |date=1894 |volume=1 |issue=4 |page=158 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15167456}} * {{cite journal |last1=Dunker |first1=W. |title=Neue japanische Mollusken |journal=Malakozoologische Blätter |date=1860 |volume=6 |page=226 |url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16014319}} * {{cite journal |last1=Adams |first1=A. |title=On some new genera and species of Mollusca from the North of China and Japan. |journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History |date=1861 |volume=3 |issue=8 |page=244 |url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15602268}} * {{cite journal |last1=Sabelli |first1=S. |title=The "Bothropoma" species in the Red Sea |journal=Bollettino Malacologico |date=2023 |volume=59 |issue=2 |page=217 |doi=10.53559/BollMalacol.2023.01 |url=https://doi.org/10.53559/BollMalacol.2023.01|url-access=subscription }} * {{Gastropods.com|key=3|id=38233|title=''Bothropoma pilula''|access-date=15 January 2019}}
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pilula Category:Gastropods described in 1860 Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Dunker