Homalopoma maculosa

Homalopoma maculosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.[2]

Homalopoma maculosa
Drawing of a shell of Homalopoma maculosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:
Phasianelloidea
Family:
Colloniidae
Genus:
Homalopoma
Species:
H. maculosa
Binomial name
Homalopoma maculosa
(Pease, 1868) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Collonia maculosa Pease, 1868
  • Leptothyra maculosa Pease, 1862

Description

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]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off French Polynesia, Hawaii and the Marshall Islands.

References
Notes
  1. Pease, Am. Jour. Conch, IV, t. 11, f. 1
  2. Homalopoma maculosa (Pease, 1868). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  3. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Leptothyra maculosa)
Bibliography
  • Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506.


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