Rapa rapa

Rapa rapa, common name the bubble turnip, is an operculated species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

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Rapa rapa

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Coralliophilinae
Genus:	Rapa
Species:	R. rapa
Binomial name
*Rapa rapa* (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms^[1]
Bulla rapa ^{(Linnaeus, 1758)} Murex rapa Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Pyrula papyracea Lamarck, 1816 Rapa papyracea (Lamarck, 1816) Rapa pellucida Röding, 1798 Rapa penardi Montrouzier, 1856 Rapa striata Röding, 1798 Rapa tenuis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 Rapana bella G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869 Rapana pellucida Bozzetti, 2008

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Description

Rapa rapa was first described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus as Murex rapa.^[2] Its shell size can range from 40 to 105 mm (1.6 to 4.1 in).^[3]

Rapa rapa is found near the Indian Ocean in locations such as Madagascar,^[4] the Chagos Archipelago,^[5] and the coasts of Tanzania, where it was described in 1856 by Xavier Montrouzier as Rapa penardi.^[6] It is also found in the east on the coasts of China^[7] and the Philippines.^[8]

[1]
Rapa rapa. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
[2]
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online
[3]
"Rapa rapa". www.gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
[4]
Odhner, N.H.J. (1919). Contribution a la faune malacologique de Madagascar. Arkiv för Zoologi, K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, 12(6): 1–52, 4 pl.
[5]
Sheppard, A (1984). The molluscan fauna of Chagos (Indian Ocean) and an analysis of its broad distribution patterns. Coral Reefs 3: 43–50.
[6]
"WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Rapa penardi Montrouzier, 1856". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
[7]
Morton B. & Morton JE. (1983). The sea shore ecology of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
[8]
"WoRMS - Photogallery". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 12 March 2016.

Lamarck J.B. (1816). Liste des objets représentés dans les planches de cette livraison. In: Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la Nature. Mollusques et Polypes divers. Agasse, Paris. 16 pp.
Nevill, G.; Nevill, H. (1869). Descriptions of marine Gastropoda from Ceylon, etc. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 38(2): 157-164, pl. 17
Bozzetti L. (2008) Rapana pellucida (Gastropoda: Hypsogastropoda: Muricidae: Rapaninae) nuove specie dal Madagascar Meridionale. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 58: 5-6.
Oliverio, M. (2008). Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 481-585.
Steyn, D.G & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. Pp. i–vi, 1–289.
Kilburn R.N., Marais J.P. & Marais A.P. (2010) Coralliophilinae. pp. 272–292, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp.
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.