Homalopoma maculosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae.[2]
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| Drawing of a shell of Homalopoma maculosa | |
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. maculosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Homalopoma maculosa (Pease, 1868) [1]
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Description
editThe 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
editThis species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off French Polynesia, Hawaii and the Marshall Islands.
References
edit- Notes
- ^ Pease, Am. Jour. Conch, IV, t. 11, f. 1
- ^ a b Homalopoma maculosa (Pease, 1868). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
- ^ 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.