Herpetopoma

Taxobox
name = "Herpetopoma"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Trochacea
familia = Trochidae
genus = "Herpetopoma"
genus_authority = Pilsbry,1890
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

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

These top shells have a gemmate or clathrate sculpture, almost invariably a pair of tubercles, with a notch between them, at the base of the columella, and a multispiral operculum.

pecies

* "Herpetopoma alacerrima" Dell, 1956
* "Herpetopoma bella" (Hutton, 1873)
* "Herpetopoma benthicola" Powell, 1937
* "Herpetopoma foveolata" (A. Adams, 1851)
* "Herpetopoma larochei" (Powell, 1926)
* "Herpetopoma larochei larochei" (Powell, 1926)
* "Herpetopoma larochei alacerrima" Dell, 1956
* "Herpetopoma mariae" Finlay, 1930
* "Herpetopoma pruinosa" (Marshall, 1979)

References

* [http://www.mollusca.co.nz/checklist.php?page=7#Trochidae NZ Mollusca]
* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1