Homalopoma quantillum

Homalopoma quantillum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Phasianelloidea
Family: Colloniidae
Genus: Homalopoma
Species: H. quantillum
Binomial name
Homalopoma quantillum
Gould, 1861 [1]
Synonyms
  • Collonia quantilla Gould, 1861
  • Leptothyra quantilla (Gould, 1861)

Homalopoma quantillum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.[2]

Subspecies
  • Homalopoma quantillum carmineum (Bartsch, 1915)
  • Homalopoma quantillum quantillum (Gould, 1861)

Description

The size of the shell varies between 2 mm and 3.5 mm. It is a small, rose-colored, solid shell with a depressed-orbicular shape. it contains four whorls. The aperture is circular. The outer lip is thick. The columella has a strong slope. The periphery of the base is blunt.[3]

Distribution

This marine species has been found off Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa

References

  1. ↑ Gould, Proc. Bost. Soc. VIII, p. 22
  2. ↑ Homalopoma quantillum Gould, 1861.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  3. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described in Latin as Collonia quantilla)
  • Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 48

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