Pupa (gastropod)
Pupa is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae.[1]
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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
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species are included within the genus Pupa:[2]
- Pupa affinis (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 alveola (Souverbie, 1863)
- Pupa coccinata 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 niecaensis Barnard, 1963
- Pupa nitulida (Lamarck, 1816) Smooth pink pupa
- Pupa pascuana Raines, 2002
- Pupa pudica (Adams, 1854)
- † Pupa reticulata (Martin, 1884)
- Pupa sekii Habe, 1958
- Pupa sinica Lin, 1989
- Pupa solidula Linnaeus, 1758 Solid pupa
- Pupa strigosa (Gould, 1859)
- Pupa sulcata (Gmelin, 1791) Furrowed pupa
- Distribution : cosmopolitan, tropical Indo-Pacific, Kermadec Islands, 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 suturalis (Adams, 1854)
- Pupa tessellata (Reeve, 1842)
- Pupa tragulata Iredale, 1936
- Species brought into synonymy
- Pupa choshiensis (Habe, 1958): synonym of Rictaxiella choshiensis Habe, 1958
- Pupa detrita L. Pfeiffer, 1854: synonym of Cerion incanum (Leidy, 1851)
- Pupa flammea (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Maxacteon flammeus (Bruguière, 1789)
- Pupa grisebla Röding, 1798: synonym of Pupa solidula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pupa incana Leidy, 1851>: synonym of Cerion incanum (Leidy, 1851)
- Pupa kirki (Hutton, 1873): synonym of Pupa affinis (A. Adams, 1855)
- Pupa nivea (Angas, 1871) synonym of Pupa affinis (A. Adams, 1855)
- Pupa novoseelandica L. Pfeiffer, 1853: synonym of Phenacharopa novoseelandica (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
- Pupa roseomaculata Iredale, 1936: synonym of Pupa solidula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pupa umbilicata Draparnaud, 1801: synonym of Lauria cylindracea (da Costa, 1778)
The database Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database (OBIS) also includes the following names in current use :[3]
- Pupa acuta
- Pupa alba (Hutton, 1873)
- Pupa cinerea
- Pupa fraterculus
- Pupa insculpta
- Pupa pusilla
- Pupa strigosa
- Pupa thaanumi Pilsbry, 1917
- 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 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 suturalis A. Adams, 1855
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
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References
- 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
- Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp.
- Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp.
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