{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Speciesbox |taxon = Raphitoma oblonga |image = |image_caption = |authority = ([[John Gwyn Jeffreys|Jeffreys]], 1867) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = * ''Clathurella bucquoyi'' <small>Locard, 1886</small> * ''Clathurella purpurea var. denseclathrata'' <small>Dautzenberg & Durouchoux, 1913</small> * ''Clathurella servaini'' <small>Locard, 1891</small> * ''Defrancia purpurea var. oblonga'' <small>Jeffreys, 1867</small> (basionym) * ''Raphitoma servaini'' <small>(Locard, 1891)</small> |display_parents = 3 }}
'''''Raphitoma oblonga''''' is a [[species]] of [[sea snail]], a marine [[gastropod]] [[mollusk]] in the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Raphitomidae]].<ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Raphitoma oblonga (Jeffreys, 1867). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1301155 on 2019-11-28</ref>
==Description== The length varies between 12 mm and 14 mm, and its diameter is between 5 mm and 5.5 mm.
The shell has a fusiform shape and a rather high acuminate [[Spire (mollusc)|spire]]. The [[body whorl]] is bulbous. The [[Whorl (mollusc)|whorl]]s are covered with regular longitudinal ribs forming small reticulations when crossed by the spiral riblets. The [[Aperture (mollusc)|aperture]] is oblong. The short [[siphonal canal]] is slightly bent. The ground color of the shell is dark brown, sometimes with white spots.<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 [[English Channel]].
==References== {{Reflist}} * Dautzenberg, P. & Durouchoux, P. (1913) Les mollusques de la Baie de Saint-Malo (suite). La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, 43(515), 9–16 * Giannuzzi-Savelli R., Pusateri F. & Bartolini S. (2018). A revision of the Mediterranean Raphitomidae (Gastropoda: Conoidea) 5: loss of planktotrophy and pairs of species, with the description of four new species. Bollettino Malacologico. 54, supplement 11: 1-77
==External links== * [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187 Jeffreys J.G. (1862-1869). British conchology. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 ] * [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] * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10831012 Locard A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusque marins. Lyon, H. Georg & Paris, Baillière : pp. X + 778] * {{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|journal = Zootaxa|volume = 682|pages = 1–1295| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1}} * [https://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id355449/ Biolib.cz: ''Raphitoma oblonga'']
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Raphitoma Oblonga}} [[Category:Raphitoma|oblonga]] [[Category:Gastropods described in 1867]] [[Category:Taxa named by John Gwyn Jeffreys]]