Pupa (gastropod)
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| Apertural view of a shell of Pupa tessellata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia informal group Lower Heterobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Acteonoidea |
| Family: | Acteonidae |
| Genus: | Pupa Bolten, 1798 |
| Type species | |
| Pupa grisebla Röding, 1798 | |
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Pupa is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae. [1]
The genus is named Pupa because the shell of these snails resemble an insect pupa in overall shape. The animal has a large headshield with a deep median slit, separating it into two posteriorly projecting lobes.
Species
A shell of Pupa affinis
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species are included within the genus Pupa:[2]
- Pupa affinis (A. Adams, 1854)
- Distribution : South Africa, Red Sea, Indo-Pacific
- Length : 11-20 mm
- Description : cream-colored shell with horizontal spiraled patterns (dark brown, light brown or greenish) without dark borders; sharp apex
- Pupa coccinata L. A. Reeve, 1842 (considered by some to be a color form of Pupa strigosa)
- Distribution : Japan, tropical Indo-West Pacific
- Length : 25 mm
- Description : headshield flaps cover the opening of the mantle cavity; white-colored with many orange-red spots in spiraling bands
- Pupa davisi Kilburn, 1975
- Distribution: South Africa
- Length : 12.5 mm
- Description : cream-colored shell with sharp apex.
- Pupa nitulida (Lamarck, 1816) Smooth pink pupa
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific, Philippines, New Caledonia, South Africa
- Length : 10-18 mm
- Description : shell has a smooth creamy to pink color; sharp apex.
- Pupa pascuana Raines, 2002
- Pupa sinica Lin, 1989
- Pupa solidula Linnaeus, 1758 Solid pupa
- Distribution : cosmopolitan, Indo-Pacific
- Length : 15-35 mm
- Description: shell with a white background, covered with horizontally spiraling bands of dark brown to light brown patterns; sharp apex.
- Pupa sulcata (Gmelin, 1791) Furrowed pupa
- Distribution : cosmopolitan, tropical Indo-Pacific, Japan
- Length : 10-25 mm
- Description : intertidal and up to depths of 30 m, burrowing in the sand; lightbrown shell with horizontal darker bands, where the darkest parts form a vertical band; sharp apex
- Pupa tragulata Iredale, 1936
- Species brought into synonymy
- Pupa flammea (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Maxacteon flammeus (Bruguière, 1789)
- Pupa grisebla Röding, 1798: synonym of Pupa solidula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pupa kirki (Hutton, 1873): synonym of Pupa affinis (A. Adams, 1855)
- Pupa nivea (Angas, 1871) : synonym of Pupa affinis (A. Adams, 1855)
- Pupa strigosa (Gould, 1859): synonym of Buccinulus strigosus Gould, 1859: synonym of Pupa affinis (A. Adams, 1855)
- Pupa suturalis (A. Adams, 1854): synonym of Japonactaeon suturalis (A. Adams, 1855)
The database Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database (OBIS) also includes the following names in current use : [3]
- Pupa acuta
- Pupa alba (Hutton, 1873)
- Pupa alveola (Souverbie, 1863)
- Pupa cinerea
- Pupa fraterculus
- Pupa insculpta
- Pupa niecaensis (Barnard, 1963)
- Pupa pudica
- Pupa pusilla
- Pupa roseomaculata Iredale, 1936
- Pupa strigosa
- Pupa tessellata (Reeve, 1842)
- Pupa thaanumi Pilsbry, 1917
- Pupa tragulata Iredale, 1936
- Pupa (Pupa) coccinata (Reeve, 1842-c)
- Pupa (Rictaxiella) choshiensis (Habe, 1958-c)
- Pupa alveola Souverbie, 1863
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Pupa choshiensis T. Habe, 1958
- Distribution : Japan
- Pupa cinerea R. B. Watson, 1886
- Distribution : Japan
- Pupa clathrata Yokoyama, 1922
- Distribution : Japan
Pupa fumata
- Pupa fumata Gould, 1859 Brown Pupa
- Distribution : tropical, Western Australia, Indo-Pacific
- Length : 20 mm
- Description : shell with spiral ribs; patterns of brown or gray spots on a cream-colored background; whorls separated by a white narrow band.
- Pupa niecaensis K. H. Barnard, 1963
- Distribution : South Africa
- Pupa pudica Adams, 1854
- Distribution : Hawaii
- Length : 7 mm
- Description : pink-colored elongate shell, with spiral bands of lightbrown patterns.
- Pupa solidula fumata (= Pupa fumata) Reeve, 1865 Brown pupa
- Distribution : Philippines, Thailand
- Length : 6 mm
- Pupa suturalis A. Adams, 1855
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
References
- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Pupa Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204293 on 2012-06-04
- ↑ WoRMS : Pupa; accessed : 12 October 2010
- ↑ OBIS : Pupa
External links
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