Raphitoma pseudohystrix

Raphitoma pseudohystrix
	Shell of Raphitoma pseudohystrix (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Raphitoma
Species:	R. pseudohystrix
Binomial name
	Raphitoma pseudohystrix; (Sykes, 1906)
Synonyms
	Defrancia hystrix Jeffreys, 1867; Clathurella pseudohystrix Sykes, 1906; Raphitoma divae Carrozza, 1984;

Raphitoma pseudohystrix is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.^[2]

Description

European waters^[2]
Grecian Exclusive Economic Zone^[2]
Western, Central Mediterranean and Adriatic. The records from Greece seem due to a misidentification.

^ Sykes E. R. (1906). "On the Mollusca procured during the "Porcupine" Expeditions 1869-1870. Supplemental notes, part 3". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7: 173-190.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Raphitoma pseudohystrix (Sykes, 1906). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.

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, Suppl. 11: 1-77
Ceulemans L., Van Dingenen F. & Landau B.M. (2018). The lower Pliocene gastropods of Le Pigeon Blanc (Loire- Atlantique, northwest France). Part 5 – Neogastropoda (Conoidea) and Heterobranchia (fine). Cainozoic Research. 18(2): 89-176

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