Hemitoma

Hemitoma
A shell of a Hemitoma species from New Zealand, anterior end to the bottom
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Hemitominae
Genus: Hemitoma
Swainson, 1840
Type species
Emarginula tricostata G.B. Sowerby I, 1823
Species

See text

Synonyms

Subemarginula Gray, 1847

Hemitoma is a genus of slit limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1]

In this genus of fissurellid, there is an inconspicuous notch at the anterior end of the shell rather than a slit. The notch is best seen in an interior view of the shell.

Species

Species within the genus Hemitoma include:[2]

  • Hemitoma australis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832)
  • Hemitoma bella Gabb, 1865

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species names have been accepted [3]

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following species with names in current use [4]

  • Hemitoma arabica (A. Adams, 1852)
  • Hemitoma modesta (H. Adams, 1872)
  • Hemitoma subrugosa Thiele, 1916
  • Hemitoma simpla Christiaens, 1987
Subgenus Montfortia, Récluz, 1843
accepted as the genus Montfortia Récluz, 1843
  • Hemitoma cratitia (A. Adams, 1852)
Subgenus Montfortista, Iredale, 1929
  • Hemitoma oldhamiana (Nevill, 1869)
Species brought into synonymy

References

  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • McLean J.H. (2011) Reinstatement of the fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae, with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 54(1-2): 407-427
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  • Worms
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