Lithopoma
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| Lithopoma caelatum | |
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| Shell of Lithopoma caelatum (Gmelin, 1791), with operculum, measuring 51.9 mm in height by 51.2 mm diameter, found on reefs off Fajardo, in Puerto Rico. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Subfamily: | Turbininae |
| Genus: | Lithopoma Gray, 1850[1] |
| Type species | |
| Trochus tuber Linnaeus, 1758 |
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Pachypoma Gray, 1850 |
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Lithopoma is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails with a calcareous operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. [2]
[edit] Species
Species within this genus were previously placed in the genus Astraea. They include:
- Lithopoma americanum (Gmelin, 1791)
- Lithopoma brevispina (Lamarck, 1822)
- Lithopoma caelatum (Gmelin, 1791)
- Lithopoma phoebium (Röding, 1798)
- Lithopoma tectum (Lightfoot, 1786)
- Lithopoma tuber (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Lithopoma gibberosa (Dillwyn, 1817) : synonym of Pomaulax gibberosus (Dillwyn, 1817)
- Lithopoma gibberosum (Dillwyn, 1817): synonym of Pomaulax gibberosus (Dillwyn, 1817)
- Lithopoma undosum (W. Wood, 1828): synonym of Megastraea undosa (W. Wood, 1828)
[edit] References
- ^ Gray J. E. (1850). Figs. Moll. Anim. 4: 88.
- ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2011). Lithopoma Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=240760 on 2011-11-09
- Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592
- Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1-82, pls 104-245
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