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Herpetopoma
Sign in to saveHerpetopoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Chilodontaidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderSeguenziida
- FamilyChilodontaidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,344
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Chilodontaidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, DMNS, NMV, USNM, TMAG
- Recorded in
- Australia, United States, Indonesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Seguenzioidea
- Image
- Herpetopoma instrictum 001.jpg
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- Category:Herpetopoma
- taxon name
- Herpetopoma
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- genus
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- Herpetopoma
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Description
- Species
- References
Herpetopoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Chilodontaidae.
In the past, this genus was often treated as a subgenus of Euchelus. However, this genus may prove to be a composite taxon, given the diversity of the shell forms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Herpetopoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.