Talopena

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Talopena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Prosobranchia
Order: Archaeogastropoda
Superfamily: Trochacea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Talopena
Iredale, 1918
Species

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Talopena is a genus of sea snail, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Trochidae, the top shells.

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[edit] Distribution

This genus is endemic to northern New Zealand including the Kermadec Islands, New Caledonia, and New South Wales in Australia.

[edit] Shell description

These top shells are moderate sized, turbinate, and sculptured with spiral cords or dense spiral lirae. The umbilicus is moderately wide, deep, steep-sided, with two spiral ridges, one of which, the stronger, margins the umbilicus, and the other one, within the umbilicus, terminates in a nodule high up on the columella lip.

[edit] Species

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