{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Speciesbox |taxon = Raphitoma bourguignati |image = Raphitoma bourguignati 001.jpg |image_caption = Shell of ''Raphitoma bourguignati'' (specimen at MNHN, Paris) |authority = ([[Arnould Locard|Locard]], 1891) |synonyms_ref = |synonyms = * ''Clathurella bourguignati'' <small>Locard, 1891</small> (original combination) * ''Raphitoma (Philbertia) bourguignati'' <small>(Locard, 1891)</small> |display_parents = 3 }}
'''''Raphitoma bourguignati''''' is a [[species]] of [[sea snail]], a marine [[gastropod]] [[mollusc]] in the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Raphitomidae]].<ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Raphitoma bourguignati (Locard, 1891). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1046171 on 2019-12-09</ref>
==Description== The length of the shell reaches a length of 22 mm and a diameter of 8 mm.
This species was previously included in the speciescomplex ''[[Raphitoma purpurea]]''. Compared with ''R. purpurea'', the shell is narrower and the [[Spire (mollusc)|spire]] is more slender. The [[Whorl (mollusc)|whorl]]s are less convex. The axial ribs are very close, larger and more regular. They form with the spiral threads a regular reticulation with nodules. The ground color of the shell is a bright pale yellow.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54577547 Locard A. (1891). ''Les coquilles marines des côtes de France.'' Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. 37: 1-385]</ref>
==Distribution== This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off [[France]]
==References== {{Reflist}} * Pusateri F., Giannuzzi Savelli R., Bartolini S. & Oliverio M. (2017). ''A revision of the Mediterranean Raphitomidae (Neogastropoda, Conoidea) 4: The species of the group of Raphitoma purpurea (Montagu, 1803) with the description of a new species''. Bollettino Malacologico. 53(2): 161-183.
==External links== * {{cite journal|last1 = Tucker | first1 = J.K.|year = 2004 | title = Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)|url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf|format = PDF|journal = Zootaxa|volume = 682|pages = 1–1295}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Raphitoma Bourguignati}} [[Category:Raphitoma|bourguignati]] [[Category:Gastropods described in 1891]] [[Category:Taxa named by Arnould Locard]]