Tomopleura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.
The fusiform shell with a high spire and a truncate base is light-built with a deep, reverse "U-shaped" anal sinus on the shoulder slope and a tall, straight-sided conical spire. The apex is truncate. The sculpture of the shell shows strong spiral lirae and spiral keels with fine axial threads in the interstices. There is a spiral ridge at the lower columella. The radula is of the toxoglossan type.
Species in this marine genus occurs in Central and East Indian Ocean, off East Africa, India (E), Indo-China, Japan, Mozambique, Philippines, the Red Sea, South Africa and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Tomopleura :
Tomopleura bellardii (Jousseaume, 1883)Tomopleura carrota (Laseron, 1954)Tomopleura cicatrigula (Hedley, 1922)† Tomopleura clifdenica Powell, 1942Tomopleura coffea (Thiele, 1925)† Tomopleura crassispiralis (Marwick, 1929)Tomopleura dilecta (Hedley, 1903)† Tomopleura excavata (Hutton, 1877)† Tomopleura finlayi Powell, 1942Tomopleura fuscocincta Gofas & Rolán, 2009 Tomopleura nivea (Philippi, 1851)Tomopleura oscitans Kilburn, 1986Tomopleura pouloensis Jousseaume, 1883 Tomopleura reciproca (Gould, 1860)Tomopleura reevii (Adams C. B., 1950)Tomopleura regina (Thiele, 1925)Tomopleura retusispirata (Smith E. A., 1877)Tomopleura spiralissima Gofas & Rolán, 2009 - synonyms = Asthenotoma spiralis (Smith, 1872), Pleurotoma spiralis, Smith, 1872 † Tomopleura striata (P. Marshall, 1917)Tomopleura subtilinea (Hedley, 1918)Tomopleura thola (Laseron, 1954)Tomopleura tricincta Gofas & Rolán, 2009 Tomopleura vertebrata (Smith E. A., 1875)† Tomopleura waiauensis Powell, 1942Species brought into synonymyTomopleura albula (Hutton, 1873): synonym of Maoritomella albula (Hutton, 1873)Tomopleura fultoni (G.B. Sowerby III, 1888): synonym of Pulsarella fultoni (G.B. Sowerby III, 1888)Tomopleura ischna (Watson, 1881): synonym of Maoritomella ischna (Watson, 1881)Tomopleura multiplex (Webster, 1906): synonym of Maoritomella multiplex (Webster, 1881)Tomopleura orientalis (Dell, 1956): synonym of Maoritomella orientalis Dell, 1956† Tomopleura transenna (Suter, 1917): synonym of † Cryptomella transenna (Suter, 1917)
