Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Muricoidea > Family Muricidae > Subfamily Rapaninae

Drupa Röding, 1798

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pentadactylus*	Mörch, 1852	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ムラサキイガレイシ属

Literature

original description	Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp.
basis of record	Claremont, M., Reid, D. G. & Williams, S. T. (2012). Speciation and dietary specialization in Drupa, a genus of predatory marine snails (Gastropoda. Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 41, 137-149.
status source	Vermeij, G. J. (2023). Classification and characters of the Drupa group (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Rapaninae) with the proposal of a new genus. The Nautilus. 137(3-4): 109-111.
taxonomy source	Claremont, M., Vermeij, G. J., Williams, S. T. & Reid, D. G. (2013). Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66: 91–102. [Published online 28 September 2012; Code-compliant paper version published January 2013].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Drupa Röding, 1798. 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:206126