Herpetopoma

Herpetopoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Chilodontaidae.[2]

Herpetopoma
Two views of a shell of Herpetopoma instrictum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Family: Chilodontaidae
Genus: Herpetopoma
Pilsbry, 1890[1]
Type species
Euchelus scabriusculus
A. Adams & Angas, 1867
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Euchelus (Herpetopoma) Pilsbry, 1890
  • Huttonia Kirk, 1882 (invalid: junior homonym of Huttonia Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 [Araneae])

In the past, this genus was often treated as a subgenus of Euchelus. However, this genus may prove to be a composite taxon, given the diversity of the shell forms.[3]

Description

The shell has a turbinate-conic shape as in Euchelus. The spire is elevated. The operculum is multispiral as in a typical Trochus and with more, less rapidly expanding whorls compared with Euchelus.[4] Species in this genus has typically two teeth, joined by a U-shaped notch, where the columella and the basal lips join.

Live Herpetopoma sulciferum grazing on the aquarium.

Species

Species within the genus Herpetoma include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Herpetopoma bella [sic]: synonym of Herpetopoma bellum (Hutton, 1873)
  • Herpetopoma clathratum (A. Adams, 1853): synonym of Vaceuchelus clathratus (A. Adams, 1853)
  • Herpetopoma eboreum Vilvens & Heros, 2003: synonym of Herpetopoma xeniolum (Melvill, 1918)
  • Herpetopoma fischeri (Montrouzier [in Souverbie & Montrouzier], 1866): synonym of Herpetopoma exasperatum (A. Adams, 1853)
  • Herpetopoma foveolatum (A. Adams, 1851): synonym of Vaceuchelus foveolatus (A. Adams, 1853)
  • Herpetopoma larochei alacerrima Dell, 1956: synonym of Herpetopoma alacerrimum Dell, 1956
  • Herpetopoma providentiae (Melvill, 1909): synonym of Ascetostoma providentiae (Melvill, 1909)

References
  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1890). In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. (1890). Manual of Conchology 11: 430.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2010). Herpetopoma Pilsbry, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391155 on 25 March 2013
  3. Herbert D.G. (2012) A revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of southern Africa and the south-western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates, 53(2): 381–502
  4. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  • NZ Mollusca
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
  • Herbert D.G. (2012) A revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of southern Africa and the south-western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates, 53(2): 381–502
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