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Genus of gastropods

Herpetopoma
Two views of a shell of Herpetopoma instrictum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Family: Chilodontaidae
Genus: Herpetopoma
Pilsbry, 1890
Type species
Euchelus scabriusculus
A. Adams & Angas, 1867
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Euchelus (Herpetopoma) Pilsbry, 1890
  • Huttonia Kirk, 1882 (invalid: junior homonym of Huttonia Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 )

Herpetopoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Chilodontaidae.

In the past, this genus was often treated as a subgenus of Euchelus. However, this genus may prove to be a composite taxon, given the diversity of the shell forms.

Description

The shell has a turbinate-conic shape as in Euchelus. The spire is elevated. The operculum is multispiral as in a typical Trochus and with more, less rapidly expanding whorls compared with Euchelus. Species in this genus has typically two teeth, joined by a U-shaped notch, where the columella and the basal lips join.

Species

Species within the genus Herpetoma include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1890). In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. (1890). Manual of Conchology 11: 430.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. (2010). Herpetopoma Pilsbry, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391155 on 25 March 2013
  3. Herbert D.G. (2012) A revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of southern Africa and the south-western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates, 53(2): 381–502
  4. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Taxon identifiers
Herpetopoma
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