Homalopoma
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Homalopoma is a genus of small sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae.
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[edit] Description
The shells are small, very solid, and usually strongly spirally ridged, the umbilicus being either missing, or quite small. The operculum is circular, with horny and shelly layers.
[edit] Distribution
Widely distributed, but typically from the west coast of North America.
[edit] Species within the genus Homalopoma
- Homalopoma albidum (Dall, 1881)
- Homalopoma baculum (Carpenter, 1864)
- Homalopoma berryi J. H. McLean, 1964
- Homalopoma carpenteri Pilsbry, 1888
- Homalopoma cordellensis J. H. McLean, 1996
- Homalopoma crassicostata (Murdoch, 1905)
- Homalopoma draperi J. H. McLean, 1984
- Homalopoma engbergi (Willett, 1929)
- Homalopoma fluctuata (Hutton, 1883)
- Homalopoma grippi (Dall, 1911)
- Homalopoma imperforata (Suter, 1908)
- Homalopoma indutum (Watson, 1879)
- Homalopoma juanensis (Dall, 1919)
- Homalopoma lacunatum (Carpenter, 1864)
- Homalopoma luridum (Dall, 1885)
- Homalopoma micans (Powell, 1931)
- Homalopoma mimicum LaFollette, 1976
- Homalopoma nana (Finlay, 1930)
- Homalopoma panamense (Dall, 1908)
- Homalopoma paucicostatum (Dall, 1871)
- Homalopoma peloritanum (Cantraine, 1835)
- Homalopoma philipiana (Dall, 1889)
- Homalopoma radiatum (Dall, 1918)
- Homalopoma rotella (Powell, 1937)
- Homalopoma sanguineus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Homalopoma subobsoletum Willett, 1937
- Homalopoma umbilicata (Powell, 1926)
- Homalopoma variecostata (Powell, 1937)
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
