Veprecula

Veprecula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Veprecula
Shell of Veprecula polyacantha (paratype at the MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Veprecula
Melvill, 1917
Type species
Clathurella sykesii
Melvill & Standen, 1903
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]

Mordica Dall, 1924

Description

(Original description) This genus has been created by Melvill in 1917 for a series of deep-water species of Clathurella with several peculiarities.

The small, thin, delicate shell has a pale brown or white, fusiform spire, either very attenuate, or pagodiform, or broader, and ventricose, always much suturally impressed. The shell contains 10-12 whorls with 4-5 whorlsin the protoconch. The first of these is smooth, the second to the fourth or fifth are very finely longitudinally radially costulate. The remainder are either few or closely ribbed, crossed by frequent or more distant lirations, acutely echinate at the points of junction, interstices appearing deeply seated, almost smooth, quadrate or oblong. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is thin. The sinus is deep and wide, situated immediately below the suture. The siphonal canal is produced and fusiform.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Veprecula include:

Species brought into synonymy

References
  1. Veprecula Melvill, 1917. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 3 August 2011.
  2. Melvill J.C. (1917). A revision of the Turridae (Pleurotomidae) occurring in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, as evidenced mostly through the results of dredgings carried out by Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1893–1914. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 12(4): 140-186, pls 8-10
  3. Veprecula arethusa (Dall, 1918). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  4. Veprecula bandensis Sysoev, 1997. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  5. Veprecula brunonia (Dall, 1924). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  6. Veprecula cooperi Mestayer, 1919. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  7. Veprecula echinulata (Thiele, 1925). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  8. Veprecula gracilispira (Smith E. A., 1879). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  9. Veprecula hedleyi (Melvill, 1904). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  10. Veprecula pungens (Gould, 1860). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  11. Veprecula scala Hedley, 1922. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  12. Veprecula sykesii (Melvill & Standen, 1903). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  13. Veprecula tornipila McLean & Poorman, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  14. Veprecula vacillata Hedley, 1922. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  15. Veprecula vepratica (Hedley, 1903). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  16. Veprecula morra (Dall, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  • Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Raphitomidae
  • Katura Oyama, Revision of Japanese Veprecula (Turridae); Venus Volume: 26, Issue: 3, pp 61-65, 1968
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