Raphitoma laviae explained

Raphitoma laviae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 5 mm and 15 mm. The protoconch is multispiral.

(Original description) The reddish-brown shell has an oblong-fusiform shape. The six whorls show about 20 pronounced axial ribs, crossed by transverse riblets (about 5 in the upper whorls) forming a latticed structure. The aperture is oblong and is somewhat smaller than half the length of the shell. The outer lip is incrassate and notched within.^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Western and Central Mediterranean Sea.

References

• Giannuzzi-Savelli R., Pusateri F. & Bartolini S. (2018). A revision of the Mediterranean Raphitomidae (Gastropoda: Conoidea) 5: loss of planktotrophy and pairs of species, with the description of four new species. Bollettino Malacologico. 54, supplement 11: 1-77
• Hoarau A. & Horst D. (2020). Les genres Cyrillia, Leufroyia & Raphitoma vivants de Méditerranée française. AFC, Paris, and ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 98 pp.

External links

• Philippi R.A. (1844) - Bemerkungen über die Molluskenfauna Unter-Italiens; Archiv für Naturgeschichte. vol. 10 (1)
• Tucker . J.K.. 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). PDF. Zootaxa. 682. 1–1295.
• Gastropods.com: Raphitoma laviae
• Biolib.cz: Raphitoma laviae
• Natural History Museum, Rotterdam: Raphitoma laviae
• Russini, V.; Giannuzzi-Savelli, R.; Pusateri, F.; Prkic, J.; Fassio, G.; Modica, M. V.; Oliverio, M. (2020). Candidate cases of poecilogony in Neogastropoda: implications for the systematics of the genus Raphitoma Bellardi, 1847. Invertebrate Systematics. 34: 293–318

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46936062 Philippi R.A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2. Halle [Halis Saxorum]: Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28