Herpetopoma
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Herpetopoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Trochidae, the top shells.
These top shells have a gemmate or clathrate sculpture, almost invariably a pair of tubercles, with a notch between them, at the base of the columella, and a multispiral operculum.
[edit] Species
- Herpetopoma alacerrima Dell, 1956
- Herpetopoma bella (Hutton, 1873)
- Herpetopoma benthicola Powell, 1937
- Herpetopoma foveolata (A. Adams, 1851)
- Herpetopoma larochei (Powell, 1926)
- Herpetopoma larochei larochei (Powell, 1926)
- Herpetopoma larochei alacerrima Dell, 1956
- Herpetopoma mariae Finlay, 1930
- Herpetopoma pruinosa (Marshall, 1979)
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[edit] References
- NZ Mollusca
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
