Herpetopoma bellum

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Herpetopoma bellum
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Shells of Herpetopoma bellum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Family: Chilodontaidae
Genus: Herpetopoma
Species:
H. bellum
Binomial name
Herpetopoma bellum
(Hutton, 1873) [1]
Synonyms
  • Euchelus bellus Hutton, 1873 (original combination)
  • Herpetopoma bella [sic] (incorrect gender ending)
  • Huttonia iricolorT. W. Kirk, 1882
  • Huttonia hamiltoniT. W. Kirk, 1882
  • Euchelus bellus Suter, 1913

Herpetopoma bellum is a species of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chilodontaidae. [2]

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Description

The size of the shell varies between 4 mm and 5.5 mm. The small, solid, thick shell has a globose-conic shape, evenly grained all over. it is blackish or pink varied with darker. It is imperforate when adult, and has a groove at the place of the umbilicus. The short spire is conic. The apical whorl is smooth, the following whorl has three granose lirae, the next with 3 or 4; the penultimate has 7 or 8 equal, grained lirae. The interstices are narrow. The body whorl has ten such lirae. The teleoconch contains 5 convex whorls. The last one is globose, descending at the aperture. The rounded aperture is nacre with steel-blue and dark red reflections. It is lirate inside. The concave columella terminates in a tooth, below which there is a narrow notch, and another tubercle or tooth on the basal lip equal in size to the columellar denticle. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand., [4] Chatham Island and Tasmania.

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References

  1. ↑ Hutton, Cat. Mar. Moll. N. Z., p. 37, 1873
  2. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Herpetopoma bellum. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598367 on 2012-05-24
  3. ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Euchelus bellus)
  4. ↑ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1
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