Raphitoma pupoides

Raphitoma pupoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.^[1]

Raphitoma pupoides
Shell of Raphitoma pupoides (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Raphitoma
Species:	R. pupoides
Binomial name
Raphitoma pupoides (Monterosato, 1884)
Synonyms[1]
Cordiera pupoides Monterosato, 1884 Cyrtoides rudis Scacchi, 1836 Pleurotoma reticulata var. brevis Requien, 1848 Pleurotoma rudis Scacchi, 1836 (Invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma rudis G.B. Sowerby I, 1834; Cordieria pupoides and Raphitoma neapolitana are replacement names) Raphitoma (Cyrtoides) rudis (Scacchi, 1836) Raphitoma (Cyrtoides) rudis cylindracea [sic] (misspelling and misidentification of Clathurella cylindrica Locard & Caziot, 1900) Raphitoma brevis Réquien, 1848 Raphitoma neapolitana F. Nordsieck, 1977

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, oblique and obsolete cross-linking, rapid subtraction, tumid evolutions. The conical apex is composed of many rounded corners, the last of which at angled periphery.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Central Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands.