Drupa morum
| Drupa morum | |
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| A shell of Drupa morum morum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Rapaninae |
| Genus: | Drupa |
| Subgenus: | Drupa |
| Species: | D. morum |
| Binomial name | |
| Drupa morum Röding, 1798 | |
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Drupa morum, common name the purple drupe, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Subspecies
- Drupa morum iodostoma (Lesson, 1840)[1] (synonym : Purpura (Ricinula) iodostoma Lesson, 1840 ) (species inquerenda)
- Drupa morum morum Röding, 1798[1] (synonyms : Canrena neritoidea Link, 1807; Drupa horrida (Lamarck, 1816), Drupa morum Röding, 1798, Drupa (Drupa) morum morum Röding, 1798; Drupa violacea (Schumacher, 1817); Ricinella violacea Schumacher, 1817; Ricinula globosa Mörch, 1852; Ricinula horrida Lamarck, 1816)
Drupa (Drupa) morum morum
Description
Thick, globose shell, up to 5 cm, with low spire, large body whorl and flat base. Colour white with dark brown nodules. Dark violet, narrow aperture with conspicuous groups of denticles.[1] Columella with three strong, plicate ridges.[1]
Distribution
Drupa morum lives in the Indo-Pacific.[1]
- Aldabra[1] (from invalid distribution)
- Chagos[1](from invalid distribution)
- Kenya[1](from invalid distribution)
- Madagascar
- Mascarene Basin[1](from invalid distribution)
- Mauritius[1](from invalid distribution)
- Red Sea[1](from invalid distribution)
- Tanzania[1]
Habitat
Habitat of Drupa morum include rocky shores[1] and in crevices among lower eulittoral rocks.[1]
References
- Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testaces marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
- Houart R., Kilburn R.N. & Marais A.P. (2010) Muricidae. Pp. 176-270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp.
- Claremont M., Reid D.G. & Williams S.T. (2012) Speciation and dietary specialization in Drupa, a genus of predatory marine snails (Gastropoda: Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta 41: 137-149.
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