Tomopleura is a genus

Genus

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 of sea snail

Sea snail

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s, marine

Marine (ocean)

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 gastropod mollusks in the family

Family (biology)

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 Borsoniidae

Borsoniidae

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Description

The fusiform shell is light-built with a deep, reverse "U-shaped" anal sinus on the shoulder slope and a tall, straight-sided conical spire

Spire (mollusc)

A spire is a descriptive term for part of the coiled shell of mollusks. The word is a convenient aid in describing shells, but it does not refer to a very precise part of shell anatomy: the spire consists of all of the whorls except for the body whorl...

. The apex

Apex (mollusc)

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 is truncate. The sculpture

Sculpture (mollusc)

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 of the shell shows spiral keels with fine axial threads in the interstices. There is a spiral ridge at the lower columella. The radula

Radula

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 is of the toxoglossan type.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species

World Register of Marine Species

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 (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Tomopleura :

• Tomopleura albula (Hutton, 1873)
• Tomopleura bellardii (Jousseaume, 1883)
• Tomopleura carrota (Laseron, 1954)
• Tomopleura cicatrigula (Hedley, 1922)
• Tomopleura coffea (Thiele, 1925)
• Tomopleura dilecta (Hedley, 1903)
• Tomopleura fuscocincta Gofas & Rolán, 2009
• Tomopleura ischna (Watson, 1881)
• Tomopleura multiplex (Webster, 1906)
• Tomopleura nivea (Philippi, 1851)
• Tomopleura orientalis (Dell, 1956)
• Tomopleura oscitans Kilburn, 1986
• Tomopleura reciproca (Gould, 1860)
• Tomopleura reevii (Adams C. B., 1950)
• Tomopleura regina (Thiele, 1925)
• Tomopleura retusispirata (Smith E. A., 1877)
• Tomopleura spiralissima Gofas & Rolán, 2009 - synonyms = Asthenotoma spiralis (Smith, 1872), Pleurotoma spiralis, Smith, 1872
• Tomopleura subtilinea (Hedley, 1918)
• Tomopleura thola (Laseron, 1954)
• Tomopleura tricincta Gofas & Rolán, 2009
• Tomopleura vertebrata (Smith E. A., 1875)

The Indo-Pacific Database also includes the following species with names in current use :

• Tomopleura pouloensis Jousseaume, 1883