Drupa ricinus

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Drupa ricinus
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Drupa (Drupa) ricinus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Drupa
Species:
D. ricinus
Binomial name
Drupa ricinus
Synonyms [1]

Sistrum ricinus, [2] formerly known as Drupa ricinus and also called the prickly spotted drupe or the prickly Pacific drupe, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae. [3]

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Description

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Five views of a shell of Drupa ricinus

The shell size of Sistrum ricinus ranges between 19 mm and 32 mm. It has a beautiful shell that is solid and narrow, of a dirty white color with dark brown or black nodules. It lives in the lower eulittoral, under boulders and on reef crest, and feed on worms and mollusks. These marine snails feed on barnacles, bivalves, other snails; worms and mollusks. They hunt their food by using a radula to drill a hole in their shells prey. [4]

Taxonomy

Sistrum ricinus has a widespread distribution and a high degree of range overlap with several sister species. [5] In the course of the 19th and 20th century, a total of 8 species and subspecies were added, leaving us with a total of 12 valid taxa within the genus, these 12 taxa are divided into 3 subgenera. [3]

Distribution and habitat

This species is distributed throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific including the Galápagos Islands, [4] Australia, Hawaii. [6] [4] They can be found on reef flats and rocks, above the tide lines of lagoons and inner reefs at a depth of 1-20m. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Drupa (Drupa) ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 27 January 2011.
  2. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Drupa ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  3. 1 2 Claremont, Martine; Reid, David G.; Williams, Suzanne T. (2012). "Speciation and dietary specialization in Drupa, a genus of predatory marine snails (Gastropoda: Muricidae)" . Zoologica Scripta. 41 (2): 137–149. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00512.x. ISSN   1463-6409.
  4. 1 2 3 "Drupa ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Solitary Islands Underwater Research Group" . Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  5. ↑ Russini, V.; Fassio, G.; Nocella, E.; Houart, R.; Barco, A.; Puillandre, N.; Lozouet, P.; Modica, M. V.; Oliverio, M. (11 December 2023). "Whelks, rock-snails, and allied: a new phylogenetic framework for the family Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". The European Zoological Journal. 90 (2): 856–868. doi:10.1080/24750263.2023.2283517. hdl: 11573/1695764 . ISSN   2475-0263.
  6. ↑ "Drupa ricinus, Prickly Pacific drupe". www.sealifebase.se. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  7. ↑ "The White-lipped Castor Bean - Whats That Fish!". www.whatsthatfish.com. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
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