Stephopoma roseum

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Stephopoma roseum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Hypsogastropoda
Family: Vermetidae
Genus: Stephopoma
Species: S. lamellosa
Binomial name
Stephopoma roseum
(Quoy and Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms

Vermetus roseus Quoy and Gaimard, 1834
Stephopoma nucleogranosum Suter, 1913
Lilax nucleogranosum Finlay, 1927
Stephopoma roseum Morton, 1951

Stephopoma roseum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails.

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[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to the coast of the northern half of the North Island of New Zealand.

[edit] Habitat

This shell is found from under rocks at low tide, to depths of 20 m.

[edit] Description

The shell is roughly spirally coiled, rather loosely compacted, the elongated tubes fused here and there to adjacent tubes. The tubes are circular and smooth.

Coloration is white, pinkish, or pale brown. The embryonic shell is pale brown.

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