Tosapusia Explained

Tosapusia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Tosapusia include:

• Tosapusia bismarckeana Fedosov, Herrmann & Bouchet, 2017
• † Tosapusia cupressina (Brocchi, 1814)
• Tosapusia duplex (Cernohorsky, 1982)
• Tosapusia evelyniana (Huang, 2017)
• Tosapusia isaoi (Kuroda & Sakurai, 1959)
• † Tosapusia kalimnanensis (Cernohorsky, 1970)
• Tosapusia kurodai (Sakurai & Habe, 1964)
• Tosapusia longirostris Fedosov, Herrmann & Bouchet, 2017
• Tosapusia myurella Fedosov, Herrmann & Bouchet, 2017
• † Tosapusia neudorfensis (Schaffer, 1898)
• † Tosapusia pseudocupressina (Bałuk, 1997)
• Tosapusia sauternesensis (Guillot de Suduiraut, 1997)
• Tosapusia turriformis Fedosov, Herrmann & Bouchet, 2017
• Tosapusia vitiaz Fedosov, Herrmann & Bouchet, 2017

Synonyms:

• Tosapusia evelynae (Guillot de Suduiraut, 2007): synonym of Tosapusia evelyniana (S.-I. Huang, 2017)

Habitat and Distribution

As presented in-text in the study of Fedosov et al. (2017):^[2]

• "Indo-Pacific, from Madagascar to Japan and French Polynesia, in deep water (300–1000 m) on soft bottoms".

References

• Azuma, M. (1965). On the radulae of the family Vexillidae. Venus. 24(1): 53–57.
• Huang S.-I [Shih-I]. (2015). New Costellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Taiwan and the North Atlantic Ocean. Visaya. 4(4): 43–53.

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). Tosapusia Habe, 1964. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596814 on 2018-12-31
2. Fedosov . Alexander E. . Puillandre . Nicolas . Herrmann . Manfred . Dgebuadze . Polina . Bouchet . Philippe . Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of the family Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 2017 . 179 . 3 . 541–626 . 2022-03-23 . English.