Reishia luteostoma

Reishia luteostoma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1][2]

Reishia luteostoma
Shell of Reishia luteostoma (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Rapaninae
Genus: Reishia
Species:
R. luteostoma
Binomial name
Reishia luteostoma
(Holten, 1803)
Synonyms[1]
  • Buccinum luteostoma Holten, 1803
  • Purpura bronni var. suppressa Grabau & S. G. King, 1928
  • Purpura bronni var. suppressa Grabau & S. G. King, 1928 ·
  • Purpura chusani Souleyet, 1852
  • Purpura suppressus Grabau & S. G. King, 1928
  • Reishia bronni (Dunker, 1860) junior subjective synonym
  • Reishia jubilaea (K.-S. Tan & Sigurdsson, 1990) junior subjective synonym
  • Thais (Thaisella) jubilaea K.-S. Tan & Sigurdsson, 1990
  • Thais (Thaisella) luteostoma (Holten, 1803)
  • Thais bronni (Dunker, 1860)
  • Thais jubilaea K.-S. Tan & Sigurdsson, 1990 (original combination)
  • Thaisella jubilaea (K.-S. Tan & Sigurdsson, 1990) ·
  • Thaisella luteostoma (Holten, 1803)

Description

The shell size varies between 40 mm and 66 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Japan; also off Malaysia.

References
  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Reishia luteostoma (Holten, 1803). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=714213 on 2019-01-06
  2. Blackmore, G. (1998). The importance of feeding ecology in investigating accumulated heavy metal body burdens in Thais clavigera (Kuster) (mollusca: neogastropoda: muricidae) in Hong Kong. PhD thesis. The University of Hong Kong.
  • Souleyet F.L.A. , 1852 Zoologie, Volume 2. In: Eydoux J. F. T. & Souleyet F. L. A. 1841-1852, Voyage autour du Monde executé pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette "La Bonite", commandée par M. Vaillant, Capitaine de vaisseau, publié par ordre du Roi sous les auspices du Département de la Marine., p. 664 pp
  • "Reishia bronni". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 10 January 2011.


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