Tomopleura
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| Tomopleura | |
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| A shell of Tomopleura bellardii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Tomopleura Casey, 1904 |
| Type species | |
| Pleurotoma nivea, Philippi, 1851 | |
Tomopleura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
The fusiform shell with a high spire 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. The apex is truncate. The sculpture 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. The radula is of the toxoglossan type.[2]
Distribution
Species in this marine genus occur in Central and East Indian Ocean, off East Africa, India (E), Indo-China, Japan, Mozambique, Philippines, the Red Sea, South Africa and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).
