Talopena

Taxobox
name = "Talopena"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Trochacea
familia = Trochidae
genus = "Talopena"
genus_authority = Iredale, 1918
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Talopena" is a genus of sea snail, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Trochidae, the top shells.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to northern New Zealand including the Kermadec Islands, New Caledonia, and New South Wales in Australia.

hell description

These top shells are moderate sized, turbinate, and sculptured with spiral cords or dense spiral lirae. The umbilicus is moderately wide, deep, steep-sided, with two spiral ridges, one of which, the stronger, margins the umbilicus, and the other one, within the umbilicus, terminates in a nodule high up on the columella lip.

pecies

* "Talopena carmesina" (Webster, 1908)

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1