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Homalopoma maculosa

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Homalopoma maculosa
Drawing of a shell of Homalopoma maculosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Colloniidae
Genus: Homalopoma
Species:
H. maculosa
Binomial name
Homalopoma maculosa
(Pease, 1868) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Collonia maculosa Pease, 1868
  • Leptothyra maculosa Pease, 1862

Homalopoma maculosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae.[2]

Description

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The white shell is small, globose and umbilicate. It is rather thin and shining. It is concentrically irregularly ribbed. The interstices are grooved, concave and transversely very faintly striate The ribs are spotted remotely with rose red. The altitude is about equal to the diameter. The subsutural rib is frequently nodose. The umbilicus is crenated within the margin.[3]

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off French Polynesia, Hawaii and the Marshall Islands.

References

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Notes
  1. ^ Pease, Am. Jour. Conch, IV, t. 11, f. 1
  2. ^ a b Homalopoma maculosa (Pease, 1868). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  3. ^ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Leptothyra maculosa)
Bibliography
  • Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506.