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Homalopoma quantillum

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Species of gastropod

Homalopoma quantillum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Phasianelloidea
Family: Colloniidae
Genus: Homalopoma
Species: H. quantillum
Binomial name
Homalopoma quantillum
Gould, 1861
Synonyms
  • Collonia quantilla Gould, 1861
  • Leptothyra quantilla (Gould, 1861)

Homalopoma quantillum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.

Subspecies
  • Homalopoma quantillum carmineum (Bartsch, 1915)
  • Homalopoma quantillum quantillum (Gould, 1861)

Description

The size of the shell varies between 2 mm and 3.5 mm. It is a small, rose-colored, solid shell with a depressed-orbicular shape. it contains four whorls. The aperture is circular. The outer lip is thick. The columella has a strong slope. The periphery of the base is blunt.

Distribution

This marine species has been found off Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa

References

  1. Gould, Proc. Bost. Soc. VIII, p. 22
  2. Homalopoma quantillum Gould, 1861. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  3. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described in Latin as Collonia quantilla)
  • Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 48

External links

Taxon identifiers
Homalopoma quantillum
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