Homalopoma linnei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Colloniidae |
| Genus: | Homalopoma |
| Species: | H. linnei
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| Homalopoma linnei | |
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Description
editThe shell size reaches 6 mm. It is a species that belong to the Homalopoma genus. Its original name is Leptothyra linnei Dall, 1889.[3]
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Distribution
editThis species occurs at depths between 80 m and 1472 m in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida and in the Caribbean Sea off Cuba; off St. Lucia, Barbados; in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil.
References
edit- ^ Dall, W. H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredgings, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879–80), by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer 'Blake,'. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 18: 1–492, pls. 10–40.
- ^ Homalopoma linnei (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 23 February 2013.
- ^ "World Register of Marine Species". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
External links
edit- "Homalopoma linnei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.