Gigahomalopoma luridum, with the common names Dall's dwarf turban or dark dwarf-turban snail, is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.[1][2][3]
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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 |
| Subfamily: | Colloniinae |
| Genus: | Gigahomalopoma |
| Species: | G. luridum
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| Binomial name | |
| Gigahomalopoma luridum (Dall, 1885)
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Description
editThe height of the shell varies between 6 mm and 10 mm. Its color is red, ashen or purple. The small, globose shell is very solid and imperforate. The spire is conic, more or less depressed. The suture is moderately impressed. There are five whorls. These are slightly convex, the last decidedly deflected toward the aperture, encircled by about fifteen subequal spiral lirae, separated by interstices about as wide as the ridges. The incremental striae are generally strongly developed, causing the liree to appear nodose or somewhat irregular, and the interstices to appear pitted. The oblique aperture is pearly white within. It measures about half the length of shell. The columella is arcuate. The base of the shell is obsoletely uni- bi- or tri-dentate. The rounded oval operculum is nearly smooth and slightly concave in the middle.[4]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in abundant numbers in the Pacific Ocean under rocks and an shale at low tide from Sitka, Alaska to Northern Baja California, Mexico.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Gigahomalopoma luridum (Dall, 1885)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
- ^ Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26
- ^ a b Sept, J. Duane (2023). The New Beachcomber's Guide to Seashore Life of California. Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada: Harbour Publishing. p. 141. ISBN 9781990776076.
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Leptothyra carpenteri)
External links
edit- USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
- Hardy, Eddie. "Hardy's Internet Guide to Marine Gastropods - Homalopoma luridum". Conchology. Retrieved August 16, 2024.