{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Speciesbox |taxon = Raphitoma pupoides |image = Raphitoma pupoides 001.jpg |image_caption = Shell of ''Raphitoma pupoides'' (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) |authority = ([[Tommaso Di Maria Allery Monterosato|Monterosato]], 1884) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = * ''Cordiera pupoides'' <small>Monterosato, 1884</small> * ''Cyrtoides rudis'' <small>Scacchi, 1836</small> * ''Pleurotoma reticulata var. brevis'' <small>Requien, 1848</small> * ''Pleurotoma rudis'' <small>Scacchi, 1836</small> (Invalid: junior homonym of ''Pleurotoma rudis'' <small>G.B. Sowerby I, 1834</small>; ''Cordieria pupoides'' and R''aphitoma neapolitana'' are replacement names) * ''Raphitoma (Cyrtoides) rudis'' <small>(Scacchi, 1836)</small> * ''Raphitoma (Cyrtoides) rudis cylindracea'' [sic] (misspelling and misidentification of ''Clathurella cylindrica'' <small>Locard & Caziot, 1900</small>) * ''Raphitoma brevis'' <small>Réquien, 1848</small> * ''Raphitoma neapolitana'' <small>F. Nordsieck, 1977</small> |display_parents = 3 }}
'''''Raphitoma pupoides''''' is a [[species]] of [[sea snail]], a marine [[gastropod]] [[mollusk]] in the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Raphitomidae]].<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|139378|''Raphitoma pupoides'' (Monterosato, 1884)||5 April 2010}}</ref>
==Description== The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 17 mm.
(Original description) It stands out at a glance for its pupoid shape and for its very short [[siphonal canal]], a strongly denticled [[Aperture (mollusc)|aperture]], oblique and obsolete cross-linking, rapid subtraction, tumid evolutions. The conical [[Apex (mollusc)|apex]] is composed of many rounded corners, the last of which at angled periphery.<ref>[http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109711 Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). ''Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee''. Palermo, Virzi, 152 pp]</ref>
==Distribution== This species occurs in the Central [[Mediterranean Sea]] and the [[Canary Islands]].
==References== {{Reflist}} * Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Francesco Pusateri, Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Riccardo Giannuzzi: ''A revision of the Mediterranean Raphitomidae, 3: on the Raphitoma pupoides (Monterosato, 1884) complex, with the description of a new species (Mollusca Gastropoda)''; Biodiversity Journal, 2016, 7 (1): 103–115
==External links== * [https://books.google.com/books?id=5w3-xBgAOnIC Scacchi, A. (1836). ''Catalogus Conchyliorum regni Neapolitani''. Neapoli [Naples], Typis Filiatre-Sebetii 18 p., 1 pl] * [http://www.gastropods.com/7/Shell_41717.shtml Gastropods.com: ''Raphitoma (pupoides''] * {{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}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Raphitoma Pupoides}} [[Category:Raphitoma|pupoides]] [[Category:Gastropods described in 1884]] [[Category:Taxa named by Tommaso Di Maria Allery Monterosato]]
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