Herpetopoma

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Herpetopoma
Herpetopoma instrictum 001.jpg
Two views of a shell of Herpetopoma instrictum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Family: Chilodontaidae
Genus: Herpetopoma
Pilsbry, 1890 [1]
Type species
Euchelus scabriusculus
A. Adams & Angas, 1867
Species

See text

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

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

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In the past, this genus was often treated 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

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