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Tomopleura vertebrata
	Apertural view of a shell of Tomopleura vertebrata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Borsoniidae
Genus:	Tomopleura
Species:	T. vertebrata
Binomial name
	Tomopleura vertebrata; (E. A. Smith, 1875)
Synonyms
	Asthenotoma vertebrata (E. A. Smith, 1875); Pleurotoma vertebrata E. A. Smith, 1875 (original combination);

Tomopleura vertebrata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 20 mm.

This marine species occurs off South Africa, in the Persian Gulf and off Japan

^ ^a ^b WoRMS (2015). Tomopleura bellardii. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=435058 on 2016-03-27

R.N. Kilburn (1986), Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae; Ann. Natal Mus. Vol. 27(2) pp. 633–720