''Tosapusia'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
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s,
marine gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s, in the
family
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Costellariidae
Costellariidae sometimes called the "ribbed miters" is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of minute to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks.
This family of snails is also sometimes re ...
, the ribbed miters.
[MolluscaBase (2018). ''Tosapusia'' Habe, 1964. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596814 on 2018-12-31]
Species
Species within the genus ''Tosapusia'' include:
* ''
Tosapusia bismarckeana''
Fedosov, Herrmann & Bouchet, 2017
* † ''
Tosapusia cupressina''
(Brocchi, 1814)
* ''
Tosapusia duplex''
(Cernohorsky, 1982)
* ''
Tosapusia evelyniana''
(Huang, 2017)
* ''
Tosapusia isaoi''
(Kuroda & Sakurai, 1959)
* † ''
Tosapusia kalimnanensis''
(Cernohorsky, 1970)
* ''
Tosapusia kurodai''
(Sakurai & Habe, 1964)
* ''
Tosapusia longirostris''
Fedosov, Herrmann & Bouchet, 2017
* ''
Tosapusia myurella''
Fedosov, Herrmann & Bouchet, 2017
* † ''
Tosapusia neudorfensis''
(Schaffer, 1898)
* † ''
Tosapusia pseudocupressina''
(Bałuk, 1997)
* ''
Tosapusia sauternesensis
''Tosapusia sauternesensis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.MolluscaBase (2018). ''Tosapusia sauternesensis'' (Guillot de Suduiraut, 1997). Accessed through: World Register ...
''
(Guillot de Suduiraut, 1997)
* ''
Tosapusia turriformis''
Fedosov, Herrmann & Bouchet, 2017
* ''
Tosapusia vitiaz''
Fedosov, Herrmann & Bouchet, 2017
;Synonyms:
* ''
Tosapusia evelynae''
(Guillot de Suduiraut, 2007): synonym of ''
Tosapusia evelyniana''
(S.-I. Huang, 2017)
Habitat and Distribution
As presented in-text in the study of Fedosov et al. (2017):
*"
Indo-Pacific
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, from
Madagascar
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to
Japan
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and
French Polynesia
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, in deep water (300–1000 m) on soft bottoms".
References
* Azuma, M. (1965). On the radulae of the family Vexillidae. Venus. 24(1): 53–57.
* Huang S.-I
hih-I (2015). New Costellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Taiwan and the North Atlantic Ocean. Visaya. 4(4): 43–53.
Costellariidae
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