Stephopoma roseum

Taxobox
name = "Stephopoma roseum"


status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
familia = Vermetidae
genus = "Stephopoma"
species = "S. lamellosa"
binomial = "Stephopoma roseum"
binomial_authority = (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834)
synonyms = "Vermetus roseus" Quoy and Gaimard, 1834
"Stephopoma nucleogranosum" Suter, 1913
"Lilax nucleogranosum" Finlay, 1927
"Stephopoma roseum" Morton, 1951

"Stephopoma roseum" is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the coast of the northern half of the North Island of New Zealand.

Habitat

This shell is found from under rocks at low tide, to depths of 20 m.

Description

The shell is roughly spirally coiled, rather loosely compacted, the elongated tubes fused here and there to adjacent tubes. The tubes are circular and smooth.

Coloration is white, pinkish, or pale brown. The embryonic shell is pale brown.

References

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