# Tomopleura > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tomopleura > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tomopleura.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomopleura > Source revision: 1354865513 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Tomopleura | image = Tomopleura bellardii (MNHN-IM-2000-2777).jpeg | image_caption = A [shell](/source/gastropod_shell) of ''Tomopleura bellardii'' | fossil_range = | authority = Casey, 1904 | type_species = ''Pleurotoma nivea'', Philippi, 1851 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = | display_parents = 3 }} '''''Tomopleura''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [sea snail](/source/sea_snail)s, [marine](/source/marine_(ocean)) [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusk](/source/mollusk)s in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Borsoniidae](/source/Borsoniidae).{{WRMS species|432573|''Tomopleura'' Casey, 1904 ||12 August 2011}} ==Description== The fusiform shell with a high [spire](/source/Spire_(mollusc)) and a truncate base is light-built with a deep, reverse "U-shaped" anal sinus on the shoulder slope and a tall, straight-sided conical [spire](/source/Spire_(mollusc)). The [apex](/source/Apex_(mollusc)) is truncate. The [sculpture](/source/Sculpture_(mollusc)) of the shell shows strong spiral lirae and spiral keels with fine axial threads in the interstices. There is a spiral ridge at the lower [columella](/source/Columella_(gastropod)). The [radula](/source/radula) is of the toxoglossan type.[http://s190418054.onlinehome.us/Portal/Turrids/Turrid10.pdf Chen-Kwoh Chang, ''Small Turrids of Taiwan'', Chapter 10, p. 96, June 1, 2001]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} ==Distribution== Species in this marine genus occur in Central and East [Indian Ocean](/source/Indian_Ocean), off [East Africa](/source/East_Africa), India (E), [Indo-China](/source/Indo-China), [Japan](/source/Japan), [Mozambique](/source/Mozambique), [Philippines](/source/Philippines), the [Red Sea](/source/Red_Sea), [South Africa](/source/South_Africa) and Australia ([Northern Territory](/source/Northern_Territory), [Queensland](/source/Queensland), [Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia)). ==Species== According to the [World Register of Marine Species](/source/World_Register_of_Marine_Species) (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus ''Tomopleura'':[http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxlist WoRMS: Tomopleura] * ''[Tomopleura bellardii](/source/Tomopleura_bellardii)'' (Jousseaume, 1883) * ''[Tomopleura carrota](/source/Tomopleura_carrota)'' (Laseron, 1954) * ''[Tomopleura cicatrigula](/source/Tomopleura_cicatrigula)'' (Hedley, 1922) * † ''[Tomopleura clifdenica](/source/Tomopleura_clifdenica)'' Powell, 1942 * ''[Tomopleura coffea](/source/Tomopleura_coffea)'' (Thiele, 1925) * † ''[Tomopleura crassispiralis](/source/Tomopleura_crassispiralis)'' (Marwick, 1929) * ''[Tomopleura dilecta](/source/Tomopleura_dilecta)'' (Hedley, 1903) * † ''[Tomopleura excavata](/source/Tomopleura_excavata)'' (Hutton, 1877) * † ''[Tomopleura finlayi](/source/Tomopleura_finlayi)'' Powell, 1942 * † ''[Tomopleura furcata](/source/Tomopleura_furcata)'' Harzhauser, Raven & Landau, 2018 * ''[Tomopleura fuscocincta](/source/Tomopleura_fuscocincta)'' Gofas & Rolán, 2009 {{cite journal|last=Gofas|first=Serge|author2=Rolan Emilio|title=A systematic review of "Asthenotoma spiralis (Smith, 1872)" in West Africa, with description of two new species (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conoidea)|journal=Zoosystema|year=2009|volume=31|issue=1|pages=5–16 |doi=10.5252/z2009n1a1 |url=http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/18136_z09n1a1.pdf|access-date=2010-08-11|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305201943/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/18136_z09n1a1.pdf|archive-date=2012-03-05}} * † ''[Tomopleura ludbrookae](/source/Tomopleura_ludbrookae)'' Powell, 1944 * ''[Tomopleura nivea](/source/Tomopleura_nivea)'' (Philippi, 1851) * ''[Tomopleura oscitans](/source/Tomopleura_oscitans)'' Kilburn, 1986 * ''[Tomopleura pouloensis](/source/Tomopleura_pouloensis)'' Jousseaume, 1883 [http://s190418054.onlinehome.us/Portal/Turrids/Turrid10.pdf Chen-Kwoh Chang,'' Small Turrids of Taiwan'' Chapter 10, p. 98, June 1, 2001]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} * ''[Tomopleura reciproca](/source/Tomopleura_reciproca)'' (Gould, 1860) * ''[Tomopleura regina](/source/Tomopleura_regina)'' (Thiele, 1925) * ''[Tomopleura retusispirata](/source/Tomopleura_retusispirata)'' (Smith E. A., 1877) * ''[Tomopleura spiralissima](/source/Tomopleura_spiralissima)'' Gofas & Rolán, 2009 - synonyms = Asthenotoma spiralis (Smith, 1872), ''Pleurotoma spiralis'', Smith, 1872 * † ''[Tomopleura striata](/source/Tomopleura_striata)'' (P. Marshall, 1917) * ''[Tomopleura subtilinea](/source/Tomopleura_subtilinea)'' (Hedley, 1918) * ''[Tomopleura thisbe](/source/Tomopleura_thisbe)'' (Melvill, 1906) * ''[Tomopleura thola](/source/Tomopleura_thola)'' (Laseron, 1954) * ''[Tomopleura tricincta](/source/Tomopleura_tricincta)'' Gofas & Rolán, 2009 * ''[Tomopleura vertebrata](/source/Tomopleura_vertebrata)'' (Smith E. A., 1875) * † ''[Tomopleura waiauensis](/source/Tomopleura_waiauensis)'' Powell, 1942 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Tomopleura albula'' (Hutton, 1873): synonym of ''[Maoritomella albula](/source/Maoritomella_albula)'' (Hutton, 1873) * ''Tomopleura fultoni'' (G.B. Sowerby III, 1888): synonym of ''[Pulsarella fultoni](/source/Pulsarella_fultoni)'' (G.B. Sowerby III, 1888) * ''Tomopleura ischna'' (Watson, 1881): synonym of ''[Maoritomella ischna](/source/Maoritomella_ischna)'' (Watson, 1881) * ''Tomopleura multiplex'' (Webster, 1906): synonym of ''[Maoritomella multiplex](/source/Maoritomella_multiplex)'' (Webster, 1881) * ''Tomopleura orientalis'' (Dell, 1956): synonym of ''[Maoritomella orientalis](/source/Maoritomella_orientalis)'' Dell, 1956 * ''Tomopleura reevii'' (Adams C. B., 1950): synonym of ''[Drilliola reevii](/source/Drilliola_reevii)'' (C. B. Adams, 1850) * † ''Tomopleura transenna'' (Suter, 1917): synonym of † ''[Cryptomella transenna](/source/Cryptomella_transenna)'' (Suter, 1917) ==References== {{Reflist}} * Kilburn R.N. (1986). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae. Annals of the Natal Museum. 27: 633-720. ==External links== {{Commons category|Tomopleura}} * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2927060 Casey T.L. (1904) ''Notes on the Pleurotomidae with description of some new genera and species.'' Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 14, 123–170] * [http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/77/3/273.full Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308] * {{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 }} {{Taxonbar|from=Q3176088}} Category:Tomopleura {{Borsoniidae-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tomopleura](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomopleura) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomopleura?action=history)). 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