Homalopoma

Taxobox
name = "Homalopoma"
fossil_range =


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Trochacea
familia = Turbinidae
genus = "Homalopoma"
genus_authority = Carpenter, 1864
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Homalopoma" is a genus of small sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae.

Description

The shells are small, very solid, and usually strongly spirally ridged, the umbilicus being either missing, or quite small. The operculum is circular, with horny and shelly layers.

Distribution

Widely distributed, but typically from the west coast of North America.

pecies within the genus "Homalopoma"

* "Homalopoma albidum" (Dall, 1881)
* "Homalopoma baculum" (Carpenter, 1864)
* "Homalopoma berryi" J. H. McLean, 1964
* "Homalopoma carpenteri" Pilsbry, 1888
* "Homalopoma cordellensis" J. H. McLean, 1996
* "Homalopoma crassicostata" (Murdoch, 1905)
* "Homalopoma draperi" J. H. McLean, 1984
* "Homalopoma engbergi" (Willett, 1929)
* "Homalopoma fluctuata" (Hutton, 1883)
* "Homalopoma grippi" (Dall, 1911)
* "Homalopoma imperforata" (Suter, 1908)
* "Homalopoma indutum" (Watson, 1879)
* "Homalopoma juanensis" (Dall, 1919)
* "Homalopoma lacunatum" (Carpenter, 1864)
* "Homalopoma luridum" (Dall, 1885)
* "Homalopoma micans" (Powell, 1931)
* "Homalopoma mimicum" LaFollette, 1976
* "Homalopoma nana" (Finlay, 1930)
* "Homalopoma panamense" (Dall, 1908)
* "Homalopoma paucicostatum" (Dall, 1871)
* "Homalopoma peloritanum" (Cantraine, 1835)
* "Homalopoma philipiana" (Dall, 1889)
* "Homalopoma radiatum" (Dall, 1918)
* "Homalopoma rotella" (Powell, 1937)
* "Homalopoma sanguineus" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Homalopoma subobsoletum" Willett, 1937
* "Homalopoma umbilicata" (Powell, 1926)
* "Homalopoma variecostata" (Powell, 1937)

References

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