Veprecula
{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Veprecula polyacantha 001.jpg
| image_caption = Shell of Veprecula polyacantha (paratype at the MNHN, Paris)
| taxon = Veprecula
| authority = Melvill, 1917
| synonyms =
- Clathurina (Veprecula) Melvill, 1917 (original rank)
- Mordica Dall, 1924
| type_species = Clathurella sykesii
| type_species_authority = Melvill & Standen, 1903
| display_parents= 3
}}
Veprecula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.{{WRMS species|432584|Veprecula Melvill, 1917||3 August 2011}}
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.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15770610 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]
Species
Species within the genus Veprecula include:
- Veprecula arethusa (Dall, 1918){{WRMS species|435189|Veprecula arethusa (Dall, 1918)||14 April 2010}}
- Veprecula bandensis Sysoev, 1997{{WRMS species|435190|Veprecula bandensis Sysoev, 1997||14 April 2010}}
- Veprecula brunonia (Dall, 1924){{WRMS species|435191|Veprecula brunonia (Dall, 1924)||14 April 2010}}
- Veprecula cooperi Mestayer, 1919{{WRMS species|435192|Veprecula cooperi Mestayer, 1919||14 April 2010}}
- Veprecula crystallina Stahlschmidt, Chino & Kilburn, 2012
- Veprecula echinulata (Thiele, 1925){{WRMS species|435193|Veprecula echinulata (Thiele, 1925)||14 April 2010}}
- Veprecula gracilispira (Smith E. A., 1879){{WRMS species|435194|Veprecula gracilispira (Smith E. A., 1879)||14 April 2010}}
- Veprecula hedleyi (Melvill, 1904){{WRMS species|435195|Veprecula hedleyi (Melvill, 1904)||14 April 2010}}
- Veprecula pungens (Gould, 1860){{WRMS species|435197|Veprecula pungens (Gould, 1860)||14 April 2010}}
- Veprecula scala Hedley, 1922{{WRMS species|435198|Veprecula scala Hedley, 1922||14 April 2010}}
- Veprecula sculpta (Hinds, 1843)
- Veprecula spanionema (Melvill, 1917)
- Veprecula sykesii (Melvill & Standen, 1903){{WRMS species|435199|Veprecula sykesii (Melvill & Standen, 1903)||14 April 2010}}
- Veprecula tornipila McLean & Poorman, 1971{{WRMS species|435200|Veprecula tornipila McLean & Poorman, 1971||14 April 2010}}
- Veprecula vacillata Hedley, 1922{{WRMS species|435201|Veprecula vacillata Hedley, 1922||14 April 2010}}
- Veprecula vepratica (Hedley, 1903){{WRMS species|435202|Veprecula vepratica (Hedley, 1903)||14 April 2010}}
;Species brought into synonymy:
- Veprecula menecharmes Melvill, 1923: synonym of Tritonoturris menecharmes (Melvill, 1923)
- Veprecula morra (Dall, 1881):{{WRMS species|435196|Veprecula morra (Dall, 1881)||14 April 2010}} synonym of Rimosodaphnella morra (Dall, 1881)
- Veprecula polyacantha Stahlschmidt, Chino & Kilburn, 2012: synonym of Famelica polyacantha (Stahlschmidt, Chino & Kilburn, 2012) (original combination)
- Veprecula reticulosa Smith, 1882: synonym of Veprecula arethusa (Dall, 1918)
- Veprecula togetoges Nomura & Niino, 1940: synonym of Veprecula arethusa (Dall, 1918)
References
{{Reflist}}
- Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308
External links
- {{cite journal | last1 = Tucker | first1 = J.K. | year = 2004 | title = Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 682 | pages = 1–1295 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 }}
- [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/HtmFamily/RAPHITOMIDAELS.htm Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Raphitomidae]
- {{cite journal |last1=Oyama|first1=Katura |title=Revision of Japanese Veprecula (Turridae) |journal=Venus |date=1968 |volume=26 |issue=3–4 |pages=61–65 |doi=10.18941/venusjjm.26.3-4_61}}
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