Rhodopetoma

Rhodopetoma
Shell of Rhodopetoma diaulax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Rhodopetoma Bartsch, 1944
Type species
Borsonella rhodope Dall, 1919
Species
See text

Rhodopetoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae. ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Rhodopetoma include:

• Rhodopetoma amycus (Dall, 1919)
• Rhodopetoma diaulax (Dall, 1908)
• Rhodopetoma erosa (Schrenck, 1862) ^[2]
• Rhodopetoma renaudi (Arnold, 1903)

Species brought into synonymy

• Rhodopetoma akkeshiensisHabe, 1958: synonym of Ophiodermella akkeshiensis (Habe, 1958)
• Rhodopetoma rhodope(Dall, 1919): synonym of Rhodopetoma diaulax(Dall, 1908)

References

1. Rhodopetoma Bartsch, 1944 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 16 April 2010.
2. Rhodopetoma erosa (Schrenck, 1862) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 16 April 2010.

External links

• Bartsch, P, Some turrid mollusks of Monterey Bay and vicinity; Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, v. 57 p. 57-68
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae