Raphitoma densa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Raphitoma
Species:	R. densa
Binomial name
Raphitoma densa (Monterosato, 1884)
Synonyms[1]
Clathurella decorata Locard, 1891 Philbertia densa Monterosato, 1884 Philbertia densa fusca (var.) Locard, E.A.A. & E. Caziot, 1900 Philbertia densa minor (var.) Locard, E.A.A. & E. Caziot, 1900 Philbertia densa rufa (var.) Locard, E.A.A. & E. Caziot, 1900 Raphitoma (Philbertia) bourguignati tarentina F. Nordsieck, 1977 Raphitoma (Philbertia) flavida F. Nordsieck, 1977 Raphitoma flavida F. Nordsieck, 1977

Raphitoma densa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 9 mm and 12 mm.

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Distribution

This species occurs in the Western and Central Mediterranean Sea.

References

• Nordsieck F. (1977). The Turridae of the European seas. Roma: La Conchiglia. 131 pp.

External links

• Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Palermo, Virzi, 152 pp
• Locard A. (1891). Les coquilles marines des côtes de France. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. 37: 1-385
• Gastropods.com: Raphitoma densa
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• Giannuzzi-Savelli R., Pusateri F. & Bartolini S. (2018). A revision of the Mediterranean Raphitomidae (Gastropoda, Conoidea), 7: on the sibling species Raphitoma densa (Monterosato, 1884) and R. griseomaculata n. sp. Biodiversity Journal. 9(4): 429-440

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