Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Conoidea > Family Mangeliidae > Genus Curtitoma

Curtitoma violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Pleurotoma Lamarck, 1799

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Curtitoma*	Bartsch, 1941	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Bela bicarinata*	(Couthouy, 1838)	synonym
*Bela bicarinata var. geminolineata*	Friele, 1879	synonym
*Bela bicarinata var. rufescens*	G. O. Sars, 1878	synonym
*Bela minuscularia*	Locard, 1897	synonym
*Bela violacea*	(Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842)	synonym
*Bela violacea var. laevior*	G. O. Sars, 1878	synonym
*Defrancia becki*	Møller, 1842	synonym
*Defrancia cylindracea*	Møller, 1842	synonym
*Oenopota bicarinata*	(Couthouy, 1838)	synonym
*Oenopota violacea*	(Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842)	synonym
*Pleurotoma (Bela) violacea*	(Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842)	synonym
*Pleurotoma bicarinata*	Couthouy, 1838	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ヌノメフタマンジ

Literature

additional source	Bogdanov, I.P. & Ito, K. [Katsuchiyo]. (1992). The Oenopotinae (Gastropoda: Turridae) mollusks from the southeastern part of the Japan Sea. Venus. 51(1-2): 11-41.
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225-383.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Curtitoma violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160248