Rapa (gastropod)

Rapa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Rapa
Rapa rapa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Coralliophilinae
Genus:
Rapa

Röding, 1798

Description

The thin shell is globosely pyriform with the axis perforate and the umbilicus partly concealed by the reflected inner lip. The spire is obtuse. The aperture is oblong, produced anteriorly into a wide subrecurved canal.

Rapa differs from Rapana not only in the produced canal of the aperture and thin simple whorls, but in the free, reflexed inner lip and moderate umbilicus.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Rapa include:

Synonyms
  • Rapa bulbosa:[6] synonym of Rapana rapiformis (Born, 1778)
  • Rapa papyracea (Lamarck, 1822):[7] synonym of Rapa rapa (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Rapa pellucida Röding, 1798: synonym of Rapa rapa (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Rapa penardi Montroux:[8] synonym of Rapa rapa (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Rapa striata Röding, 1798: synonym of Rapa rapa (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • † Rapa supraplicata Conrad, 1858: synonym of †Gyrodes supraplicatus (Conrad, 1858) (basionym)
  • Rapa tenuis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858: synonym of Rapa rapa (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Rapa volema Röding, 1798: synonym of Rapana rapiformis (Born, 1778)

References
  1. Rapa Röding, 1798. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  2. Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls
  3. Rapa bulbiformis Sowerby, 1870. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  4. Rapa incurvus (Dunker, 1852). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  5. Rapa rapa. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  6. Rapa bulbosa. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  7. Rapa papyracea (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  8. Rapa penardi Montroux. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.


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