{{Short description|Species of sea snail}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Speciesbox |taxon = Raphitoma philberti |image = Raphitoma philberti 01.jpg |image_caption = A shell of ''Raphitoma philberti'' |authority = (Michaud, 1829) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = * ''Homotoma philberti'' <small>(Michaud, 1829)</small> * ''Pleurotoma philberti'' <small>Michaud, 1829</small> (original combination) * ''Pleurotoma variegata'' <small>Philippi, 1836</small> * ''Pleurotoma variegatum'' <small>Philippi, 1836</small> * ''Pleurotoma versicolor'' <small>Scacchi, 1836</small> (dubious synonym) * ''Raphitoma variegatum'' <small>Philippi, 1836</small> * ''Raphitoma versicolor'' <small>Scacchi, 1836</small> (dubious synonym) |display_parents = 3 }}

'''''Raphitoma philberti''''' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|139375|''Raphitoma philberti'' (Michaud, 1829)||5 April 2010}}</ref>

==Description== The length of the shell varies between 6&nbsp;mm and 14&nbsp;mm.

The shell is turreted and fusiform. It contains about six convex whorls. They contain longitudinally rather tuberculated ribs that are decussated by coarse, elevated, transverse striae. The outer lip is thickened within, somewhat contracting the aperture, and strongly dentated with seven or eight elevated teeth. It has a moderately sized sinus immediately at the suture.<ref>Wood, Searles Valentine. A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca: With Descriptions of Shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the British Isles. Vol. 1. Johnson, 1848.</ref> '''Coloration''' uniformly tawny-reddish, from light to dark, with whitish blotches as wide as two axials usually vanishing towards the suture. Comma-shaped white spots on the subsutural ramp. '''Soft parts''' foot sharped bilobed anteriorly. Black eyes at proximal 1/3 of tentacles. Foot and cephalic tentacles withish/yellowish semi-transparent with many bright white spots, head semi-transparent greyish/blackish. Siphon blackish with withish spots and a whitish ring at top.

==Distribution== This species occurs in the Northern Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea.

==References== {{Reflist}} * Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180–213. * 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, Suppl. 11: 1–77

==External links== {{Commons category}} * [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33870963 Michaud A. L. G. (1829). ''Description de plusieurs espèces nouvelles de coquilles vivantes.'' Bulletin d'Histoire Naturelle de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 3: 260–276, 1 pl] * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/100735#/summary Philippi R. A. (1836). ''Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1.'' Schropp, Berlin &#91;Berolini&#93;: xiv + 267 p., pl. 1–12] * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45375#page/282/mode/1up Bellardi L. (1877), I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria /] * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11977814#page/443/mode/1up Carus, Julius Victor, ''Prodromus faunae mediterraneae, sive Descriptio animalium Maris Mediterranei incolarum, quam comparata silva rerum quatenus innotuit, adiectis locis et nominibus vulgaribus eorumque auctoribus''; Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart,1885-93] * [https://books.google.com/books?id=5w3-xBgAOnIC Scacchi, A. (1836). ''Catalogus Conchyliorum regni Neapolitani''. Neapoli &#91;Naples&#93;, Typis Filiatre-Sebetii 18 p., 1 pl.] * {{Gastropods.com|key=2|id=41072|title=''Raphitoma (Raphitoma) philberti''|access-date=16 January 2019}} * [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295] * [https://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id367942/ Biolib.cz : ''Raphitoma philberti''] * [http://www.nmr-pics.nl/Raphitomidae_new/album/slides/Raphitoma%20philberti.html Natural History Museum, Rotterdam: ''Raphitoma philberti'']

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Raphitoma Philberti}} philberti Category:Gastropods described in 1829 Category:Taxa named by Gaspard Michaud