Tomopleura
Tomopleura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.
Description
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.Distribution
Species in this marine genus occur in Central and East Indian Ocean, off East Africa, India, Indo-China, Japan, Mozambique, Philippines, the Red Sea, South Africa and Australia.Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Tomopleura:Tomopleura bellardii Tomopleura carrota Tomopleura cicatrigula- † Tomopleura clifdenica Powell, 1942 Tomopleura coffea
- † Tomopleura crassispiralis Tomopleura dilecta
- † Tomopleura excavata
- † Tomopleura finlayi Powell, 1942
- † Tomopleura furcata Harzhauser, Raven & Landau, 2018 Tomopleura fuscocincta Gofas & Rolán, 2009
- † Tomopleura ludbrookae Powell, 1944Tomopleura nivea Tomopleura oscitans Kilburn, 1986Tomopleura pouloensis Jousseaume, 1883 Tomopleura reciproca Tomopleura regina Tomopleura retusispirata Tomopleura spiralissima Gofas & Rolán, 2009 - synonyms = Asthenotoma spiralis, Pleurotoma spiralis, Smith, 1872
- † Tomopleura striata Tomopleura subtilinea Tomopleura thisbe Tomopleura thola Tomopleura tricincta Gofas & Rolán, 2009 Tomopleura vertebrata
- † Tomopleura waiauensis Powell, 1942
- † Tomopleura transenna : synonym of † ''Cryptomella transenna''