Drupa ricinus
{{Short description|Species of sea snail}}
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| image = Drupa ricinus 001.jpg
| image_caption = Drupa (Drupa) ricinus
| taxon = Drupa ricinus
| authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)
| synonyms_ref = {{WRMS species|212140|Drupa (Drupa) ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758)||27 January 2011}}
| synonyms = * Drupa (Drupa) ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Drupa ricina (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Drupa rubuscaesius Röding, 1798
- Drupa tribulus Röding, 1798
- Murex hystrix Linnaeus, 1758
- Murex ricinus Linnaeus, 1758
- Purpura hystrix Linnaeus, 1758
- Ricinula arachnoides Lamarck, 1816
- Ricinula hystrix (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Ricinula ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Sistrum album Montfort, 1810
- Sistrum ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Sistrum ricinus,{{Cite web |title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Drupa ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) |url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596436#:~:text=Accepted%20Name-,Sistrum%20ricinus%20(Linnaeus,%201758),-Rank |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=www.marinespecies.org}} formerly known as Drupa ricinus and also called the prickly spotted drupe or the prickly Pacific drupe, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae.{{Cite journal |last=Claremont |first=Martine |last2=Reid |first2=David G. |last3=Williams |first3=Suzanne T. |date=2012 |title=Speciation and dietary specialization in Drupa, a genus of predatory marine snails (Gastropoda: Muricidae) |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00512.x?msockid=1e164248fa8e66a1283851cdfb0a676e |journal=Zoologica Scripta |language=en |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=137–149 |doi=10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00512.x |issn=1463-6409|url-access=subscription }}
Description
File:Drupa_ricinus_01.JPGThe shell size of Sistrum ricinus ranges between 19 mm and 32 mm. It has a beautiful shell that is solid and narrow, of a dirty white color with dark brown or black nodules. It lives in the lower eulittoral, under boulders and on reef crest, and feed on worms and mollusks. These marine snails feed on barnacles, bivalves, other snails; worms and mollusks. They hunt their food by using a radula to drill a hole in their shells prey.{{Cite web |title=Drupa ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Solitary Islands Underwater Research Group |url=https://www.surg.org.au/species/drupa-ricinus-linnaeus-1758/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |language=en-AU}}
''Taxonomy''
Sistrum ricinus has a widespread distribution and a high degree of range overlap with several sister species.{{Cite journal |last=Russini |first=V. |last2=Fassio |first2=G. |last3=Nocella |first3=E. |last4=Houart |first4=R. |last5=Barco |first5=A. |last6=Puillandre |first6=N. |last7=Lozouet |first7=P. |last8=Modica |first8=M. V. |last9=Oliverio |first9=M. |date=2023-12-11 |title=Whelks, rock-snails, and allied: a new phylogenetic framework for the family Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24750263.2023.2283517 |journal=The European Zoological Journal |language=en |volume=90 |issue=2 |pages=856–868 |doi=10.1080/24750263.2023.2283517 |issn=2475-0263 |hdl-access=free |hdl=11573/1695764}} In the course of the 19th and 20th century, a total of 8 species and subspecies were added, leaving us with a total of 12 valid taxa within the genus, these 12 taxa are divided into 3 subgenera.
Distribution and habitat
This species is distributed throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific including the Galápagos Islands, Australia, Hawaii.{{Cite web |title=Drupa ricinus, Prickly Pacific drupe |url=https://www.sealifebase.se/summary/Drupa-ricinus.html |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=www.sealifebase.se}} They can be found on reef flats and rocks, above the tide lines of lagoons and inner reefs at a depth of 1-20m.{{Cite web |title=The White-lipped Castor Bean - Whats That Fish! |url=https://www.whatsthatfish.com/fish/whitelipped-castor-bean/1016 |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=www.whatsthatfish.com}}
References
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.132055 - Drupa ricinus ricinus (Linaeus, 1758) - Muricidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg|Drupa ricinus ricinus. Museum specimens.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.132558 - Drupa ricinus lischkei (Hidalgo, 1904) - Muricidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg|Drupa ricinus lischkei. Museum specimens.
External links
{{Commons category|Drupa ricinus}}
- {{Gastropods.com|key=0|id=900|title=Drupa (Drupa) ricinus|access-date=18 November 2010}}
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