Leufroyia leufroyi

Leufroyia leufroyi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Leufroyia
Species:	L. leufroyi
Binomial name
Leufroyia leufroyi (Michaud, 1828)
Synonyms
Clathurella mirabilis Locard, 1891 (dubious synonym) Defrancia leufroyi (Michaud, 1828) Defrancia leufroyi var. carnosula Jeffreys, 1867 (dubious syn.) Homotoma inflata (De Cristofori, 1832) Murex caudiculus Brusina, 1870 Pleurotoma inflata de Cristofori & Jan, 1832 Pleurotoma leufroyi Michaud, 1827 (original combination) Pleurotoma zonalis Delle Chiaje, 1830 Raphitoma boothii Brown in Smith, 1839 (not Smith, 1839) Raphitoma caudicula Nardo, 1848 Raphitoma cyrilli Scacchi, 1835 Raphitoma inflata (De Cristofori, 1832) Raphitoma leufroyi (Michaud, 1828) Raphitoma mirabilis Locard, 1891 Raphitoma zonalis Delle Chiaje, 1830

Leufroyia leufroyi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

The length of the shell reaches 16 mm, its diameter 7 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.; fossils were found in Upper Pliocene strata in Italy.

References

• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
• Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda
• Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp
• Howson, C. M.; Picton, B. E. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.

External links

• Michaud A.L.G. (1828). Description de plusieurs espèces de coquilles vivantes de la Méditerranée. Bulletin d'Histoire Naturelle de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, 2(10): 119-122, 1 plate
• Locard A. (1891). Les coquilles marines des côtes de France. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. 37: 1-385
• Brusina S. (1870). Ipsa Chiereghinii Conchylia ovvero contribuzione pella malacologia adriatica. Pisa, Biblioteca Malacologica pp. 280
• Cristofori J. De & Jan G. (1832). Catalogus in IV sectiones divisus rerum naturalium in museo extantium Josephi de Cristofori et Georgii Jan. Parma and Milano
• Delle Chiaje S. (1823-1831). Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del regno di Napoli. Napoli: Fratelli Fernandes (vol. 1), and Società Tipografica (vol. 2-4). Vol. 1, pp. i-xii, 1-84
• Jeffreys J. G. (1862-1869). British Conchology. London, van Voorst : Vol. 1: pp. CXIV + 341
• Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Volumen secundum continens addenda et emendanda, nec non comparationem faunae recentis Siciliae cum faunis aliarum terrarum et com fauna periodi tertiariae. Eduard Anton, Halle
• Bellardi L. (1877), I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria /
• MNHN, Paris: Raphitoma leufroyi (syntype)
• Biolib.cz: Leufroyia leufroyi
• Natural History Museum, Rotterdam: Raphitoma leufroyi