Neocollonia pilula

Bothropoma pilula
	Two views of a shell of Bothropoma pilula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Phasianelloidea
Family:	Colloniidae
Genus:	Bothropoma
Species:	B. pilula
Binomial name
	Bothropoma pilula; (Dunker, 1860)
Synonyms
	Bothropoma cf. pilula Bosch et al., 1995; Bothropoma isseli Thiele, 1924 ; Liotia pilula Dunker, 1860 (original combination); Neocollonia pilula (Dunker, 1860); Leptothyra pilula R. W. Dunker, 1860;

Bothropoma pilula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.^[2]

Description

The shell grows to a size of 5 mm.

This marine species occurs off South Japan, China and the Philippines. It has also been recorded in the Red Sea.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Rusmore-Villaume, m.l. (2008): Seashells of the Egyptian Red Sea: The illustrated Handbook. – XI + 307 pp., American Univ. in Cairo Press.
^ ^a ^b Bothropoma pilula (Dunker, 1860). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.

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