Herpetopoma

Herpetopoma
Two views of a shell of Herpetopoma instrictum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Chilodontidae
Genus: Herpetopoma
Pilsbry, 1890[1]
Type species
Euchelus scabriusculus A. Adams & Angas, 1867
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Euchelus (Herpetopoma) Pilsbry, 1890
  • Huttonia Kirk, 1882 (invalid: junior homonym of Huttonia Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 [Araneae])

Herpetopoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Chilodontidae.[2]

In the past, this genus was often tretaed as a subgenus of Euchelus. However, this genus may prove to be a composite taxon, given the diversity of the shell forms.[3]

Description

The shell has a turbinate-conic shape as in Euchelus. The spire is elevated. The operculum is multispiral as in a typical Trochus and with more, less rapidly expanding whorls compared with Euchelus.[4] Species in this genus has typically two teeth, joined by a U-shaped notch, where the columella and the basal lips join.

Species

Species within the genus Herpetoma include:

Species brought into synonymy

References