| Homalopoma maculosa | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Homalopoma maculosa | |
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| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
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| Species: | H. maculosa |
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| Homalopoma maculosa (Pease, 1868) [1] | |
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Homalopoma maculosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae. [2]
The white shell is small, globose and umbilicate. It is rather thin and shining. It is concentrically irregularly ribbed. The interstices are grooved, concave and transversely very faintly striate The ribs are spotted remotely with rose red. The altitude is about equal to the diameter. The subsutural rib is frequently nodose. The umbilicus is crenated within the margin. [3]
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off French Polynesia, Hawaii and the Marshall Islands.
Homalopoma, common name the dwarf turbans, is a genus of mostly very small sea snails with a calcareous operculum, marine gastropoda molluscs in the subfamily Colloniinae of the family Colloniidae.
Cautor is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae.
Hypselodoris is a genus of colourful sea slugs or dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae. Modern usage follows a more restricted view of which species belong in this genus so there are numerous genus transfers.
Clavus exilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.
Clavus nodulosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.
Kermia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Pseudodaphnella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Colloniidae is a family of small sea snails with calcareous opercula, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.
Homalopoma nocturnum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.
Homalopoma sanguineum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.
Leptothyra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colloniidae.
Hypselodoris maculosa is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.
Borsonia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.
Collonia is a genus of small sea snails with calcareous opercula, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colloniidae.
Homalopoma paucicostatum, common name the few-ribbed dwarf turban, is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.
Homalopoma himuquitanense is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.
Homalopoma mactanense is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.
Homalopoma zephyrium is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.
Kermia maculosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.