Homalopoma baculum

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Homalopoma baculum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Phasianelloidea
Family: Colloniidae
Subfamily: Colloniinae
Genus: Homalopoma
Species:
H. baculum
Binomial name
Homalopoma baculum
(Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Collonia paucicostataSowb. (not Dall)
  • Leptothyra baculaCarpenter, 1864 (original combination)

Homalopoma baculum, common name the berry dwarf turban, is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae. [1] [2]

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Description

The height of the shell varies between 3.5 mm and 8 mm. The small, rufous ashy shell has a depressed-globose shape. It is solid and imperforate. It contains four slightly convex whorls that are rapidly increasing. The sculpture is obsoletely but regularly spirally striate. The large aperture is oblique and deflexed above. [3]

Distribution

This common marine species occurs between tides and under rocks in the Salish Sea, Northwest America to Baja California, Mexico.

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References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Homalopoma baculum (Carpenter, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528064 on 2013-02-10
  2. Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26
  3. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Leptothyra bacula)