Raphitoma alternans

Raphitoma alternans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Raphitoma
Species:	R. alternans
Binomial name
Raphitoma alternans (Monterosato, 1884)
Synonyms
Defrancia alternans Paetel, 1888 Philbertia alternans Monterosato, 1884 (original combination) Raphitoma (Raphitoma) bucquoyi Locard, E.A.A., 1886 Raphitoma (Raphitoma) bucquoyi sfaxiana Nordsieck, F., 1977

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

Description

The length of the shell reaches a length of 10 mm. It has a paucispiral protoconch.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

References

Footnotes

Bibliography

• Oliverio, M. (2018). Catalogue of the primary types of marine molluscan taxa described by Tommaso Allery Di Maria, Marquis of Monterosato, deposited in the Museo Civico di Zoologia, Roma. Zootaxa, 4477 (1), 1-138.
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.

External links

• Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Palermo, Virzi, 152 pp
• Gastropods.com: Raphitoma alternans
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• ÖZTÜRK, BİLAL, et al. "Marine molluscs of the Turkish coasts: an updated checklist." Turkish Journal of Zoology 38.6 (2014): 832-879