Veprecula

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Genus of gastropods

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::summary Genus of gastropods ::

| image = Veprecula polyacantha 001.jpg | image_caption = Shell of Veprecula polyacantha (paratype at the MNHN, Paris) | taxon = Veprecula | authority = Melvill, 1917 | synonyms_ref = | 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.

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.

Species

Species within the genus Veprecula include:

References

  • Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011)* A new operational classification of the Conoidea*. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308

References

  1. {{WRMS species. 432584. ''Veprecula'' Melvill, 1917. 3 August 2011
  2. [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]
  3. {{WRMS species. 435189. ''Veprecula arethusa'' (Dall, 1918). 14 April 2010
  4. {{WRMS species. 435190. ''Veprecula bandensis'' Sysoev, 1997. 14 April 2010
  5. {{WRMS species. 435191. ''Veprecula brunonia'' (Dall, 1924). 14 April 2010
  6. {{WRMS species. 435192. ''Veprecula cooperi'' Mestayer, 1919. 14 April 2010
  7. {{WRMS species. 435193. ''Veprecula echinulata'' (Thiele, 1925). 14 April 2010
  8. {{WRMS species. 435194. ''Veprecula gracilispira'' (Smith E. A., 1879). 14 April 2010
  9. {{WRMS species. 435195. ''Veprecula hedleyi'' (Melvill, 1904). 14 April 2010
  10. {{WRMS species. 435197. ''Veprecula pungens'' (Gould, 1860). 14 April 2010
  11. {{WRMS species. 435198. ''Veprecula scala'' Hedley, 1922. 14 April 2010
  12. {{WRMS species. 435199. ''Veprecula sykesii'' (Melvill & Standen, 1903). 14 April 2010
  13. {{WRMS species. 435200. ''Veprecula tornipila'' McLean & Poorman, 1971. 14 April 2010
  14. {{WRMS species. 435201. ''Veprecula vacillata'' Hedley, 1922. 14 April 2010
  15. {{WRMS species. 435202. ''Veprecula vepratica'' (Hedley, 1903). 14 April 2010
  16. {{WRMS species. 435196. ''Veprecula morra'' (Dall, 1881). 14 April 2010

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